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Refugees of Climate Change
10/Sep/2006: The first refugees of climate change are from the gulf coast of United States and not from the low-lying pacific islands as expected, according to the Earth Policy Institute.
Mr. Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute said that about 250,000 people who fled hurricane ‘Katrina’ a year ago must be classed as ‘refugees’ and most of them do not have any intention of returning back to New Orleans. Mr. Brown added that United States, which is primarily responsible for global warming, is home to the first mass exodus of people fleeing the effects of climate change.
Many scientists and climatologists around the world expected that countries like Bangladesh and the French Polynesian islands would experience the first population displacement as result of climate change, since these places are barely above the sea level and could suffer the most from the rising sea levels. In contrary hurricanes and tropical storms intensified by warmer-ocean temperatures have started displacing people in the world’s richest country.
Around 250, 000 people from the coastal towns of the gulf coast decimated by Katrina, have built their homes farther inland and are not expected to return to New Orleans or the Mississippi coast. Powerful hurricanes and rising seas have pushed up the insurance costs in these coastal communities and its residents are migrating to regions inland with low insurance costs.
Kesavan Siva
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