Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (672 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0253025885 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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The work broaches solutions both practical, like reforestation, and political, like the need for a new international charter for handling non-conflict refugees." Christopher E. Goldthwait, US Ambassador retired. "This chilling and urgent call to action spares no detail in its mission to present the facts on a looming humanitarian disaster. Meyer, author of Chesapeake Country"Rising Tides deals masterfully with a neglected crisis, how climate change is driving migration. Rising Tides singlehandedly rectifies this issue. The crisis is upon us: Many of the Mediterranean displaced people are climate refugees, not conflict refugees. The work is easily grasped by the general reader, and its source material is a gold mine for interested experts. Some are both. Thanks to an equal reliance on c
A graduate of Cornell University, she regularly publishes articles dealing with all aspects of global and national environmental change, with a focus on regional politics.. Wennersten is an environmental affairs writer and author of Global Thirst: Water and Society in the 21st Century. John R. Denise Robbins is a writer and communications expert on climate change issues in Washington, DC
What will happen to these massive numbers of environmental refugees? Where will they go, what rights will they have, and who will take care of them?Over 200 million people in Asian countries live on land that will be affected by rising seas. At the same time, hundreds of millions will be desperate for water and a secure life in drought-ravaged Africa and the Middle East.Rising Tidessounds an urgent wakeup call to the growing crisis of climate refugees, and offers an essential, continent-by-continent look at these dangers. Imagine tens of thousands of Pacific and Indian Ocean islanders cast adrift by waves that have drowned their nations, and more than 100,000 Caribbean islanders forced to leave submerged towns. Over the next few decades, as sea levels rise, storms intensify, and drought and desertification run rampant, hundreds of millions of civilians will abandon their homes, cities, and even entire countries. Wennersten and Denise Robbins argue that no nation can tackle this universal problem alone. Detailing a number of solutions, John R. Picture Pakistan, India, and Chinaall nuclear powersskirmishing at their borders over access to shared rivers and farmable land with former coastal areas now submerged. Consider the complete abandonment of Miami Beach and other coastal communities up and down the Americas. Global climate change is undeniable. The crisis is everywhere and it is imminent. The crisis of climate refugees requires global, concerted solutions beyond the stra