Sentences with phrase «mass migration of»

Donald Trump's surprise U.S. presidential victory likely won't lead to any sort of mass migration of gay couples looking to move to Canada, says Toronto - area family lawyer Andrew Feldstein.
Business and pollution as usual offers half - measures and promises action just in time, if we are lucky, before the planet warms sufficiently to cause massive crop failure as industrial civilization collapses amidst flood, drought, famine, war, mass migration of the desperate, epidemics.
Joronen and Oksanen (2012) more constructively identified three key features: in emergency: «climate change is an immediate or impending threat», that extends to «life and health of humans and many other life forms» and is highly likely to result in «social disorder, for example economic turmoil and mass migration of climate refugees», in the absence of immediate action.
This would have unimaginable public health & social consequences including mass migration of population to Mumbai and Pune.
Back in 2002, when I wrote about «The Megalopolis as Eco-Strategy» (part of a special Science Times section), a lot of scientists told me that the mass migration of humans from rural areas to cities would have environmental benefits in the long run.
Paris remained the centre of gravity for later art movements like Futurism, Purism, Vorticism, Cubo - Futurism, Dada, Constructivism and Surrealism until the outbreak of World War II and the Nazi persecution of «degenerate art», which precipitated a mass migration of artists and performers to the United States.
The series, which charts the mass migration of African American's from the rural South, was last displayed in its entirety in 1994 (image at top of post).
A growth also relating to the unprecedented mass migration of people from countryside to the megalopolis.
Shortly after Christmas, a friend and fellow researcher Doug Thomas sent me a link to a fascinating and moving fan - made video by Javier — marking his decision to leave the massively multiplayer game world, Star Wars Galaxies, and commenting on the mass migration of hard core fans and players from this space.
The Gray Whale makes the most spectacular and longest mass migration of any marine mammal.
It is renowned for its unique birdlife and the various land crabs with the spectacular mass migration of crabs in November and December.
Tracking the mass migration of birds and other animals might help warn of natural disasters, as they are known to sense tectonic activity well before seismic shifts.
Ontario did, and it didn't result in a mass migration of high - priced talent out of the province.
This is one in a series of posts I intend to write on the mass migration of almost - retired baby boomers moving from large corporations to free agency.
Understanding the biomechanics of this little snail could help engineers design some nifty sea - faring robots, and it could also help with ecological studies: Zooplankton like helicina move upwards to the surface of the ocean each night to eat (and avoid being eaten), and this mass migration of tiny organisms is one of the biggest biomass movements on the planet.
It was the worst drought in the instrumental record, causing widespread crop failure and a mass migration of farming families to urban centers.»
It's the mass migration of such holes that creates the large electrical currents responsible for generating the low - frequency magnetic pulses that make their way to detectors on Earth's surface, they say.
China in particular stands out because of its sudden role as the world's factory, its enormous population, and the mass migration of that population to urban centers; 350 million people, equivalent to the entire U.S. population, will be moving to its cities over the next 10 years.
It has long been debated whether that change in subsistence strategy involved the mass migration of people from the Near East bringing innovative technologies and domestic animals to Europe or whether it was due to a transmission of cultural practices passed on from neighbouring populations.
The unexpected raid on depositors was, he continued, «a great way to encourage the mass migration of savings from weak banks in the Euro area to stronger banks somewhere else.»
The killings were on a scale not seen since the Partition of the subcontinent in August 1947 after the British had made their hurried departure, leaving behind the world's largest mass migration of humanity and suffering on an unimaginable scale.
The European migration crisis of 2015 has created a huge political challenge for the states that have to respond to the mass migration of people from the Middle East and elsewhere across the continent.
Beginning in 1845, a mass migration of workers from India over the next seventy - two years increased the population of Trinidad by 145,000.
But they risk everything — their national character and their capacity to succor the downtrodden — by permitting uncontrolled mass migration of peoples who know nothing of their culture, in such huge numbers and at such speed that they can not possibly be assimilated and integrated into this or any future generation.
A mass migration of tens of thousands of menebers of the church then left what was the United Staes to what was then Mexico in a valley next to a salt lake.
God is working out His will through people all over the world and the mass migration of people from now to centuries past is not an accident.
It helps explain why deposit rates on checking accounts can languish near zero without banks fearing a mass migration of client money to online accounts with higher rates.
The exodus was driven primarily by the collapse of the auto industry and the mass migration of middle - class African Americans to the suburbs.
Do you see massive food lines, Hoovervilles, mass migrations of people looking for work?
Anticipated changes in the environment due to climate change may lead to mass migrations of people on a scale never before seen.
Kazakhstan, smack in the middle of Asia, has witnessed most of Asia's mass migrations of the past millennia.
As a comparison, annual mass migrations of animals across the Serengeti plains of Africa cover about 800 kilometers.
OK, so most Christians and Jews would readily disbelieve anyone who claimed to be told by God to do anything as monumental as building an ark, but when you see mass migrations of birds not indigenous to the area following Evan around, there has to be a moment where even an agnostic would pause to think, «What if he's telling the truth?»
«I have never seen wildlife like that, in such numbers, not even when flying over the mass migrations of the Serengeti,» said survey leader and renowned conservationist J. Michael Fay in 2007.
«I have never seen wildlife like that, in such numbers, not even when flying over the mass migrations of the Serengeti,» said Fay in a press release.

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Higher food prices, social unrest, the failure of some fragile states — even mass migrations and a challenge to the world order — could all result.
In his study, «The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market,» Berkeley economist David Card concluded that despite a 7 % increase in the Miami labor market for unskilled workers, the mass migration had virtually no impact on local wages and unemployment.
While the mass migration to the paywall model may be a seismic shift for the news consumers, for the news industry it's less an end than it is a beginning — the start of a mad hustle to find revenue from readers in as many ways and as many forms as possible.
Another wave of mass migration is likely to hit Europe, and unless the EU can muster collective action, the Schengen system of passport - free travel could be swept away.
This raises the prospect of a humanitarian crisis on the island and a mass wave of migration to the mainland.
Violent crime, terror attacks, and epidemic levels of sexual assault in Europe are «not linked» to mass migration, Emmanuel Macron has said, blaming «discrimination» and inequality for the phenomena.
It's an interesting coincidence that the Reformation, which brought the whole of Europe into civil war and lead to mass migration happened a mere 25 years after Columbus «discovered» America.
Prominent among them is the mass migration to the anonymity of the city.
We all know a secular person or three who converted, a Jew for Jesus, a Catholic who switched, a mainstream Protestant's child who was Campus Crusaded and is born again, but there seems to have been no move of a cohort, no mass migration into evangelicalism and conservative Protestantism.
But this makes it difficult for them to see the potentially negative affects of mass migration on the cultural integrity and future of a nation, harms akin to those of imperialism, which the Church condemns.
Don't you think our government has more important thing to worry about, (mass migration, ISIS, shortage of funds, lack of Doctors etc).
The most obvious explanation — and the one that much of the media have invoked — is that the violence is a product of poverty and mass migration.
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.
Thus in India, it was not (as far as I know) the case that one religion out of Islam and Hinduism was favoured and one became suppressed colonially, yet directly after colonialism ended, mass migrations and massacres occurred between these great peoples.
In recent years, connections between climate and security were bolstered when President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State John Kerry spoke on the potential for conflict over climate - related resource scarcity and mass migration.
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