As climate changes, has Mideast refugee cr

[Sally]

This reminds me of the Series in the Los Angeles Times entitled "Beyond the 12 Billion." With the population growing and growing, there wouldn't be enough to eat for everyone.

This reminds me of the Series in the Los Angeles Times entitled "Beyond the 12 Billion." With the population growing and growing, there wouldn't be enough to eat for everyone.


As climate changes, has Mideast refugee crisis just begun?

Could refugees become the leading export of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by 2050? Several studies by research facilities including the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, and the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia suggest that possibility.

Summary⎙ Print New reports are drawing attention to the possibility that global warming could worsen the refugee crisis in the Middle East and North Africa.
Author Barın KayaoğluPosted May 24, 2016
The Max Planck study argues that parts of MENA “may become uninhabitable due to climate change [and] the number of climate refugees could increase dramatically in the future.” Worse still, “The goal of limiting global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius [3.6 degrees Fahrenheit], agreed at the recent UN climate summit in Paris, will not be sufficient to prevent this scenario.”

The report’s numbers are chilling. If governments around the world ignore the promises they made at the Paris climate change summit in December 2015 and global greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, Max Planck and Cyprus researchers expect winter temperatures in MENA countries to rise by an average of 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5-5 degrees Fahrenheit). Average summer temperatures will increase by 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit).

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As climate changes, has Mideast refugee crisis just begun? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

 

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Gee, ya think so? Den why not send some of `em to Tibet...

Dalai Lama Says Europe Has ‘Too Many’ Refugees
June 1st, 2016 - Speaking to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Dalai Lama said that there were “too many” refugees seeking asylum in Europe.

“Europe, for example Germany, cannot become an Arab country,” he said. “Germany is Germany. There are so many that in practice it becomes difficult.”

According to the BBC, Germany received more than 476,000 asylum applications in 2015, more than any other European country:

The remarks struck some as ironic, given that the Dalai Lama, the leader of the Tibetan people living in exile, is one of the world’s most prominent refugees himself.

“From a moral point of view, too, I think that the refugees should only be admitted temporarily,” he also said.

Dalai Lama Says Europe Has ‘Too Many’ Refugees

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Germany should admit refugees only temporarily, says the Dalai Lama, refugee since 1959
2 June`16 This week the Dalai Lama, who is known worldwide for his statements on compassion, might have forgotten his own teachings. In an interview to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, he said, "Europe, for example Germany, cannot become an Arab country. From a moral point of view, too, I think that the refugees should only be admitted temporarily. Germany is Germany. There are so many that in practice it becomes difficult."

The big problem is not the Dalai Lama saying that refugees should be admitted temporarily, although that statement is problematic as well, but what he said before that, which is not only dangerously close to racism but also ties in the right wing and nationalist view in Germany and Europe at large. Germany alone took in one million refugees last year.

Ironically, the Dalai Lama and his followers are refugees themselves. The current and fourteenth Dalai Lama has been living in India since 1959, after the people of Tibet started protesting against China's claim on their land. Around 1,20,000 Tibetans live in India.

The 23-year-old had then been forced to leave the capital of Tibet, and arrived in Tezpur, Assam. The Dalai Lama did also have some compassion to spare. "When we look into the face of every single refugee, especially the children and women, we can feel their suffering. The goal should be that they return and help rebuild their countries."

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