-Contributed by Erwin Cifuentes. UN officials warned that ecological problems will produce approximately fifty million environmental refugees worldwide by the end of the decade. Diminishing soil and water conditions have been the main impetus for migration out of Latin American and the Caribbean to the US and Europe. (The Guardian)
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Red Cross: Natural disasters displace more people than armed conflict
-Contributed by Erwin Cifuentes. UN officials warned that ecological problems will produce approximately fifty million environmental refugees worldwide by the end of the decade. Diminishing soil and water conditions have been the main impetus for migration out of Latin American and the Caribbean to the US and Europe. (The Guardian)
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