Now I’m not all that sure about the numbers that these people use…are we really expecting a 1 ft rise in sea level in 45 year’s time?….but their idea of adaptation doesn’t sound too awful. Essentially, those nations that have caused the sea level rise by their CO2 emissions should accept the refugees in proportion to their said contribution. Lots of shouting and arguning to be had there in determining contributions but still, not a bad idea on the face of it. One thing that I think will cause the biggest problems:
A more sensible, and just, approach is for the top greenhouse gas
emitters – including China and India – to grant entry to the up to 200
million people who could lose their homes to rising seas by 2080. How
many should go where? Under our formula, the top cumulative emitter,
the United States, would absorb 21 percent of the climate-change exiles
a year; the smallest of the 20 major emitters, Venezuela, would absorb
less than 1 percent.
Who decides who gets to go to the US (or UK, France, Germany) and who has to go to Chavez’s Bolivarian paradise, or China or India?
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