Sentences with phrase «global mass migration»

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In a future which will increasingly be characterized by mass migration and the shifting of political borders, the Ocean Model of Civilisation can serve as a constructive paradigm for greater global security — especially its transcultural dimension — by promoting better and more dignified treatment of human beings, tolerance of diversity and respect for differences.

Bangladesh and countries like it are on the frontline of mass migrations as a result of global warming, Part 2 of a special series

Bangladesh and countries like it are on the frontline of mass migrations as a result of global warming

Supporters say a loss - and - damage mechanism in a global climate pact could reduce the dangers of unplanned mass migrations following droughts and floods.

• If global civilization can not continue to adjust to these climate changes in an evolutionary manner, then revolutionary means (economic depression, famine, mass migration, unilateral seizure of resources, unilateral efforts at geo - engineering) leave us and our descendants vulnerable to perpetual warfare, with ever - increasing chances of unrestrained nuclear exchanges.

In 8 years nearly all Peru's glaciers will be gone due to global warming and its 27 million people will nearly all lack fresh water, with the likely result being: «chaos, conflict and mass migration».

What will likely happen as a result of global warming is a migration of arable land northwards, but also mass desertification.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

An article in The Guardian states: «Thanks to global climate change, mass migration could be the new normal.»

The top right hand quadrant of the World Economic Forum's annual Global Risks Report is home to highly likely, high impact dangers that have not been resolved: climate change, weapons of mass destruction, water scarcity, mass forced migration, and energy price shocks.

Brigadier General (ret) Chris King, chief academic officer for the United States Army's Command and General Staff College, warned that failed states, extreme weather events and mass migration could be «debilitating» and represented real dangers to global stability in the coming years.

A major Italian weekly magazine, L'Espresso, is attributing mass migrations into Europe from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and North Africa to global warming, warning that a legally binding agreement at the upcoming climate conference in Paris is necessary in order to preserve world peace.

It could endanger global water and food supplies and flood coasts with rising seas; these impacts, in turn, could trigger mass migrations and violent conflicts.

The social foundations of children's mental and physical health and well - being are threatened by climate change because of: effects of sea level rise and decreased biologic diversity on the economic viability of agriculture, tourism, and indigenous communities; water scarcity and famine; mass migrations; decreased global stability46; and potentially increased violent conflict.47 These effects will likely be greatest for communities already experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage.48

But I would wager that a 5 °C rise in global temperature could cause up to half the inhabited land to become unbearably hot and force mass migrations and starvation.

The social foundations of children's mental and physical health are threatened by the specter of far - reaching effects of unchecked climate change, including community and global instability, mass migrations, and increased conflict.

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.

Nor has mass migration owing to global warming been observed.

2007/04/17: ENN: Melting Himalayan Glaciers Pose Security Risk, UNEP Says Global warming will cause the Himalayan glaciers to melt, leading to mass migration and possibly conflicts over valuable resources such as agricultural land and fresh water, the U.N. Environment Programme chief said.