[domevent]

And we all know that mass migrations and plagues can’t happen today! No really, if anything the technology we have makes both of those things much harder to control. Climate change leads to drought and famine, which leads to political and social instability, war, and mass migration (as we’ve already seen recently). Those same forces, along with people loving cheek to jowel, with access to rapid mass transit, is a risk for plagues. The current “solution” is runaway spending on the military, and wars that seem to never end.

[sverige]

Where is climate change the root cause of mass migration?

[pjc50]

Also, resource collapse. Yemen is in the process of running out of water; either some large expensive solution needs to be deployed in a very poor country, or a million or more people need to move or die.

https://thinkprogress.org/yemen-humanitarian-crisis-water-54...

[nrb]

Where will climate change be the root cause of mass migration?

[domevent]

Here’s one recent example: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/science/earth/study-links...

And this: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-change-alr...

And: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003043870...

And: http://time.com/4024210/climate-change-migrants/

... https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/09/analysts-warn...

[sverige]

I don't see anything in these articles that proves that climate change is either the primary proximate cause or a necessary cause for the migration from the Middle East to Europe. It is still more simply explained by political expediency than it is by climate change.