Wave of ecomigration sweeps global population
In Bangladesh, about 12 million to 17 million people have fled their
homes in recent decades because of environmental disasters — and the
low-lying country is likely to experience more intense flooding in the
future. In several countries in Africa’s Sahel region, bordering the
Sahara, about 10 million people have been driven to move by droughts
and famines. ad_icon In the Philippines, upwards of 4 million people have moved from lowlands to highlands as a result of deforestation. And in an earlier era, about 2.5 million Americans became ecomigrants after droughts and land degradation during the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s.
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A few years ago the Pentagon-sponsored report, Abrupt Climate Change
Scenario warned of the need to strengthen US defenses against
“unwanted starving immigrants” from the Caribbean, Mexico and South
America. In January 2007, the Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown
and Root won a contract from the US government to augment existing
immigration detention and removal facilities “in the event of an
emergency influx of immigrants into the US.
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The EU analysis of the security threats posed by global warming predicts social unrest as an influx of immigration sweeps “destination” Europe, following failing harvests and environmental conflicts in the world’s poorest countries. “There will be millions of ‘environmental’ migrants by 2020, with climate change as one of the major drivers of this phenomenon,” states the report.
“Such migration may increase conflicts in transit and destination areas. Europe must expect substantially increased migratory pressure.” The stark report, written by Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief, and Benita
Ferrero-Waldner, the Commissioner for External Relations, forecasts
the rise of vicious new conflicts following the impact of climate
change.
“The inability of a government to meet the needs of its population as a whole or to provide protection in the face of climate change-induced hardship could trigger frustration, lead to tensions between ethnic and religious groups within countries and to political radicalisation.”
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