What shall we do with the climate refugees?

The mass movement of climate refugees from poor, hot countries to rich, temperate ones is the political dynamite that could destroy global co-operation on stopping the emissions and the warming.

An estimated 5,000 people protested in Ottawa on Sept. 27, 2019, calling for more aggressive measures to mitigate climate change. The UN estimates that 1.5 billion people may be forced to move in the next 30 years due to climate change, writes Gwynne Dyer.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 25, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—You wait ages for the bus, and then three come along at once. Books are a bit like that, too, although in this case it’s only a pair of them, both tackling the question of what to do about all the climate refugees. (The United Nations' International Organization for Migration estima...

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