Not only have we settled in disaster prone areas, but when things get bad because of Climate Change, we move to even worse areas. Last year, according to the United Nations, 210 million people — about three per cent of the global population — migrated between countries, and, in 2009, about 740 million people moved within countries.<\/p>\n
“Millions will migrate into, rather than away from, areas of environmental vulnerability,” said , chief scientific advisor to the UK government, and head of the Foresight programme. “An even bigger policy challenge will be the millions who are trapped in dangerous conditions and unable to move to safety.”<\/p>\n
The scientists, in a report entitled Migration and Global Environmental Change, found that between 114 million and 192 million more people were likely to be living in floodplains in urban areas of Africa and Asia by 2060, partly as a result of climate change.<\/p>\n
An important thing to keep in mind is that this is not something that is going to happen several hundred or thousands of years from now. It\u2019s happening now, and if we don\u2019t do something, we\u2019re going to be going downhill fast within the next 30 years.<\/p>\n
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