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[...] Some experts estimate that climate change could force between 150 and 300 million people to find a new place to live by the middle of this century, though there is considerable uncertainty about the amount. Finding suitable locations to house them will be a significant impediment. As Michael Gerrard explained, "part of the problem is scale. If we're talking about millions of people having to be on the move, it just doesn't work."
In the U.S., there are very few habitable places that aren't already occupied by homes, businesses, or agriculture, or preserved as park lands or forests. Meanwhile, rural areas would provide few opportunities for migrants to find employment and rebuild their lives.
Instead, Gerrard suggested moving people from high-risk areas to cities whose populations are shrinking, such as Detroit, Michigan. He sees cities' potential for vertical development, energy-efficient buildings, and public transportation as a way to sustainably host climate migrants.
What if refugees from Caribbean islands don't want to live in Detroit?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by The Shire on Sunday January 07 2018, @12:34AM (2 children)
1970 Acid Rain
1980 Ozone Depletion
1990 Global Warming
2000 Climate Change
These harbingers of doom have been wrong over and over - they're as good at predicting environmental change as the local weatherman is at telling us what next week will be like. This is just more waving of arms to justify increasing the "refugee" quota.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @12:45AM
> 1970 Acid Rain
In the 80's my parents limestone gravel driveway fizzed after it rained, we certainly did have acid rain and many lakes were changed for the worst. Now that coal burning is slowing down in USA, the lakes are coming back.
> 1980 Ozone Depletion
Very real, but luckily an international agreement to limit CFCs is working and the very thin layer of ozone (only a few mm thick, if it was concentrated at sea level pressure) is reforming. Read about it here, you might learn something--
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_layer [wikipedia.org] There have been monitoring stations for this since the 1920s!
> 1990 Global Warming
> 2000 Climate Change
Two names for the same thing, you may think the jury is out, but the prediction of glacier melting and more extreme weather certainly seems to have been true, along with overall warming as detected by various means.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday January 08 2018, @09:27PM
I can see you've never been to Lapland, or the Black Triangle in East Germany and Poland whence most of Lapland's acid rain pollution originated. I've seen with my own two eyes, and felt, the result of that acid rain. As far as the eye could see, if it stuck out above ground to above eye level, it was probably dead.
I will admit that it was fun to pretend to be some kung-fu master with the ability to fell a tree with a couple of well-placed kicks, but it was also rather depressing, as Finland was a nett contributor to EU funds, Poland, not even a member yet, was an EU charity case, and yet it was Poland's industry that was to blame for northern Finland's pollution problem. Oh, and their southern coastal waters pollution problem too, because dioxins and mercury don't mix well with Baltic Herring. Or mix rather too well, they act as rather good filters.
However, well done, you trolled me. Clearly you're just another droid pulling imagined tropes out of your arse with no ability to support them with little things like facts.
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