18 June 2008

Climate Change And Refugees

Grunt grunt. Screw-tops bad, cork good.

The NHS is failing bisexual and lesbian women.

The one-millionth Freecycler!

Congratulations, Mark Lynas.

Finally, a word from Antonio Guterres, the UN high commissioner for refugees:

"Climate change is today one of the main drivers of forced displacement, both directly through impact on environment - not allowing people to live any more in the areas where they were traditionally living - and as a trigger of extreme poverty and conflict."

"What we are witnessing is a trend in the world where more and more people feel threatened by conflict, threatened by their own government, threatened by other political, religious ethnic or social groups, threatened by nature and nature's retaliation against human aggression - climate change is the example of that. And also threatened by ... a slowdown in global growth, plus structural change in energy and food markets."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

On an unrelated note, I've added you as per your request. How about a link in return? ;)

scott redding said...

Done!