20 Million Environmental Emigres
Posted in Environment, Fun Facts on Jun 30th, 2011
In Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming, the author, Amy Seidl, tells us that: in 2007 twenty million environmental emigres fled unsuitable environmental conditions in their homelands, outnumbering, for the first time, refugees fleeing from war. In the endnotes she suggests that she obtained that estimate from this article, but I cannot […]
