Migration is an essential component of strategies to adapt to changing climates, writes Alex Randall. Greens should welcome migrants and support their efforts to build climate resilience in their home communities.
… Adapt or survive? How migration creates climate resilience Alex … Society Economics marvin-garcia-salas-cut.jpg Migration is an essential component of … to stick to its current positive stance on immigration. Not swerve to the right in pursuit …
Britain's deep-seated environmental and economic problems have nothing to do with immigration, writes Adam Ramsay, and everything to do with our unjust and divisive social order, and the austerity that is being inflicted on us by an oppressive ruling class.
… Blaming migration for our problems is dangerous and … economic problems have nothing to do with immigration, writes Adam Ramsay, and everything … Read finished his piece on why he hates immigration by saying that mainstream …
There are no good reasons for not acting on population and migration, writes Simon Ross. It's time to tackle the issues head on and openly to challenge the excuses for doing nothing - or for acting only indirectly to reduce population growth, by raising the status of women in high fertility countries.
… Action, not excuses, needed on population and migration Simon Ross | 7th January 2015 … good reasons for not acting on population and migration, writes Simon Ross. It's time to … role in family size, sexual rights and migration. How important is it and what should …
The green movement's squeamish social liberalism has left it to the political right to exploit public concerns about population and immigration, writes Colin Hines. We must make the progressive case for controlling our borders, and restricting not just migration but the free movement of goods, services and capital where it threatens environment, wellbeing and social cohesion.
… public concerns about population and immigration, writes Colin Hines. We must make … our borders, and restricting not just migration but the free movement of goods, … an opposition to inadequately controlled immigration, but also an increasingly …
Governments worldwide have been warned: draw up plans to help populations who are being forced to move because of climate change, or face a future of growing conflict and insecurity, writes Paul Brown.
… factors sometimes combine to cause migration, with people anticipating that they … already faced with voluntary or forced migration because of climate change are … change that already have problems with migration. These are the Pacific, Central …
The main concerns that drove the Brexit vote - mass immigration and declining job prospects - must be taken seriously, writes Colin Hines, in the UK and across Europe. We need a new, cooperative union: of decentralised regional economies, with public investment in 'green' infrastructure driving our transition to a sustainable, low carbon future.
… concerns that drove the Brexit vote - mass immigration and declining job prospects - must … the national debate has been dominated by immigration versus how to maximise access to … large number of those who voted either way immigration was a major concern. This was …
The UK's Brexit vote probably did reflect widespread anti-immigration sentiment, writes Alex Randall. And that may persuade environmental groups to tap into the xenophobic zeitgeist to win support and appear 'relevant'. But that's a temptation they must resist, because it's wrong - for factual, logical and ethical reasons.
… Greens must not jump on anti-immigration bandwagon! Alex Randall | 21st July … vote probably did reflect widespread anti-immigration sentiment, writes Alex Randall. And … organisations will go somewhere nasty on immigration. This is an appeal to green …
Remarks by Bernie Sanders that climate change is a major driver of global instability and terror, he was mocked by Republican Presidential contenders. But the argument is a familiar one to the CIA and the Department of Defense, which has itself released strong warnings on the issue. Is it time the GOP got with the beat?
… to grow your crops, then you're going to see migrations of people fighting over land that … instability that leads to widespread migration, damages infrastructure and leads to …
Our attempts to adapt to, and mitigate, the effects of climate change, such as using biofuels, could worsen the direct effects of climate change on our ecoystems
… to support displaced agriculture. Mass migration In other examples, the authors say … in biodiverse habitats. And drought-fuelled migrations in Burkina Faso in the late 20th …
One billion people could have been forced out of their homes by 2050 as a result of the pressures of climate change, a new report by development charity Christian Aid says.
… Aid 14th May 2007 News Christian Aid Migration Climate Change IDP Internally … Rights Violations International Development Immigration International Develo News web pic … Drawing parallels with the enforced migration seen in the aftermath of the Second …
Isolated by the surrounding desert, Kashgar was once
an oasis on the old Silk Road. Now the city is being overwhelmed in the rush to open up the region’s oil and gas reserves. By Dan Box.
… the trains that facilitate a state-supported migration of millions of Han Chinese. China’s … to 43 per cent of the city’s population. The migration has been driven by the discovery of …
Native woods and trees in urban areas, including gardens, provide haven for wildlife, reduce air pollution, surface run-off and flooding
Trees a 'low-cost' solution to air pollution and biodiversity loss in cities The Ecologist | 2nd July 2010 News Trees Deforestation Biodiversity Society Cities migratingbirds2.jpg Native woods and …
A new Forum for the Future report outlines radical ways in which British - and worldwide - cities need to reinvent transport infrastructures to deal with excessive populations
… next few years. ‘We are seeing the largest migration to cities in history,’ said Peter …
While we face 'hard choices' about which species and ecosystems to conserve, it's odd how we face no such quandaries over which of our frivolous luxuries to refrain from, or what murderous weapons system not to build, writes Derrick Jensen. And of course, there's no question at all of tackling the root causes of global ecocide.
… quilt of approaches, including assisted migration, seed banks and new preserves and …
The closing down of a community radio station in eastern Paraguay is the latest example of political repression in the country with the most unequal land distribution in Latin America, writes Toby Hill, and in which the media are dominated by a tiny elite of the super-rich. As small farmers begin to reclaim the land that is rightfully theirs, landowners and the state they control are striking back.
… producers, he adds, is part of "a global migration from the countryside to the city." …
Most discussion of population misses the point. The earth simply cannot support our lifestyle.
… that matter) needs to close its borders to immigration from poor countries. Having finally … community is unravelling. Of course, this migration, too, is part of the unravelling. …
While governments argue over responsibility for global warming, development experts are thinking about the humanitarian consequences for the world’s poor. Mara Hvistendahl reports from the United Nations.
… the most attention was climate-induced migration. According to a report released … University, compared that scenario to current migration trends in the Chinese countryside, …
The greatest injustice of the climate crisis is that those least responsible for it are hit first and hardest. But within this injustice lies the key to a just and sustainable future. ASAD REHMAN, executive director of War on Want, explains
… career depends on staying the course. Forced migration, global warming, poverty and hunger …
Just as rich and poor are separated by walls of money, the Latin American trend is to add physical walls to keep wealthy and deprived communities entirely apart, write Camillo Boano & Belen Desmaison. On the one side people enjoy lavish homes, security, public services and piped water. On the other residents live in tiny shacks built of scraps, in a desert landscape ruled by criminals.
… inhabitants. Growth accelerated because of migration from the countryside into the city, … of better opportunities. The rate of internal migration was particularly significant during …
Edmund O'Sullivan reviews a selection of readings on inter-cultural and transdisciplinary approaches to human ecology.
… Human ecology as peacebuilding, Anne Goodman; Migration, aboriginality and acculturation, Ben-Zion Weiss; The immigration experience: losses and gains for … family labour: a case study of generational migration stasia and ecological degradation, …
If you read the international press, it is easy to be convinced that the international ‘debate’ about global warming is about whether international organisations and country governments are able to ‘wake up’ to alarming news about the future of the planet.
… on trade routes, on flood damage, on migration, on resource extraction (as impacted …
Martin Harper, the RSPB's Conservation Director tells us why the launch of a new report should be a serious wake up call for all of us - a call that we simply can't ignore.......
The State of Nature: new report shows most UK species in decline Martin Harper | 22nd May 2013 News Natural World Society shutterstock_52493515.jpg The report reveals just how terrifyingly steep the …
Since 1948 Jordan has taken in millions of refugees from Palestine, Iraq and most recently Syria, writes Doug Weir. Politically and economically the country has proved astonishingly resilient - but the population increase has caused huge damage to its fragile environment. Ecological degradation, pollution and resource scarcity may cause political instability unless more is done to tackle the problems.
… discovering, failing to address the impact of migration during response and recovery could …