Climate Refugees Migration

The cluster focuses on discussions about climate change causing mass displacement and migration of millions or billions from uninhabitable hot or flooded areas, leading to refugee crises, border conflicts, and societal challenges.

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lexpar Jun 18, 2019 View on HN

I really hope you'll change your mind, specifically about that last sentence. Probably billions of the world's poorest people are likely to see their environment become unlivable. That's not a problem a little AC and migration will easily solve.Just look how poorly rich countries are reacting to the current levels of migration from less rich countries.

PhasmaFelis Dec 8, 2018 View on HN

Are you now claiming that climate change isn't a big deal because the billions of people whose homes are flooded, or too hot to survive, or otherwise uninhabitable can just...go somewhere else?In today's world, we see (much smaller) groups of people trying to relocate as their homes become intolerably dangerous. The press calls it "the refugee crisis" and it's causing massive tension all over the world. What do you think will happen if the flow of refugees continues i

pmontra Nov 15, 2022 View on HN

Migrations from too hot areas to warm or cold ones is what is going to happen. But moving to an empty area is different from moving to a heavily populated one. Moving thousands of people is different than moving maybe billions. It's not going to be easy and probably not cooperative. And that will be probably happening together with sea level rising and the resulting destruction / relocation of infrastructure. Very interesting times, much more than now.

kubb Feb 25, 2022 View on HN

climate refugees about to be a thing. it's gonna get ugly

nradov Jul 1, 2021 View on HN

What will force the issue isn't people dying, but rather masses of climate refugees fleeing countries that are no longer habitable and moving toward the poles.

GekkePrutser Mar 4, 2022 View on HN

The problem is not that climate change will hurt everybody. Many areas will be just fine.But many others won't, and the people that lived there will need somewhere else to live, and productivity resources in that area are gone. That's going to be a lot of refugees needing a place in the world that's already struggling to provide for all of us.All this will make the world a lot more unstable politically and economically. And just look at the news today to see how well we'

tnel77 May 24, 2023 View on HN

I don’t want this to happen, but I have a theory about how this is all going to play out over the coming decades.We are going to continue to see yearly records be set. Bigger fires, more ice melting, worse droughts, etc. Eventually, the global poor will be forced to relocate and even the leftest leaning countries will realize that it is infeasible to accept all these immigrants (looking at Europe in particular). Mass riots will occur along those borders, but eventually eco-immigrants will die

autoexec Sep 28, 2022 View on HN

Climate change is going to displace an unfathomable amount of people all around the world. If you aren't already living in an 'ark' you soon will be. A lot of people will be extremely desperate and I expect we'll see a lot of them die right outside of our borders.While the US should do its part to take in as many as it can we'll be dealing with it ourselves. The western US is facing increasing desertification, clean water is becoming more difficult to find, and the te

esalman Aug 18, 2023 View on HN

This is another piece of the puzzle climate change deniers don't understand (I am not calling you one btw). Of course these people are not going to stay there. We will see mass migration. It is easy to dismiss climate change by saying that life will go on. But we all know how the western societies view and treat migrants these days.

Sharlin Aug 11, 2021 View on HN

What is actually going to happen is displacement. The hundreds of millions of people most vulnerable to the consequences of climate change don't have much choice but to start walking. The 2015 refugee crisis in Europe was nothing compared to that, never mind the tiny trivial inconvenience that is current illegal immigration across the Mexico–US border.