Global warming will cause Third World flight to the West
Among the most dramatic effects [of an environmental crisis], if the historical record is any guide, will be massive migrations of people from areas where civilization is disrupted to other areas where they hope to find the means for survival & a better
way of life-but with unpredictable consequences for those areas. About 10 million residents of Bangladesh will lose their homes and means of sustenance because of the rising sea level, due to global warming, in the next few decades. Where will they go?
Source: Earth in the Balance, page 73
Jul 2, 1993
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