Wednesday, August 16, 2006

250,000 Katrina Evacuees Seen as 'Climate Refugees'

Well, what else are we going to call them?

The number of "climate refugees" will grow unless the world cuts the amount of greenhouse gases it releases, said Lester Brown, president of Earth Policy Institute in Washington D.C.

"What we're looking at is the potential not of displacing thousands of people, but possibly millions of people as the result of rising seas and more destructive storms in the years and decades ahead if we don't move quickly to reduce CO2 emissions," he said.


Sorry, Lester -- I don't want to sound defeatist, but it's too late. What we need to be doing now is taking measures to help absorb and sustain the next wave of climate refugees. Which should be, like, any year now.

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