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In our report, The Climate of Poverty, published a year ago,
Christian Aid highlighted how the process of climate change
was already affecting poor populations. It also predicted how
the threat of increasing floods, disease and famine sparked
by climate change could nullify efforts to secure meaningful
and sustainable development in poor countries. At worst, the
report said, these ravages could send the real progress that has
already been achieved ?spinning into reverse?.
To add many more millions of uprooted people to this mix
makes an already apocalyptic picture potentially even more
devastating.
The danger is that this new forced migration will fuel
existing conflicts and generate new ones in the areas of the
world ? the poorest ? where resources are most scarce.
Movement on this scale has the potential to de-stabilise whole
regions where increasingly desperate populations compete for
dwindling food and water.
Christian Aid highlighted how the process of climate change
was already affecting poor populations. It also predicted how
the threat of increasing floods, disease and famine sparked
by climate change could nullify efforts to secure meaningful
and sustainable development in poor countries. At worst, the
report said, these ravages could send the real progress that has
already been achieved ?spinning into reverse?.
To add many more millions of uprooted people to this mix
makes an already apocalyptic picture potentially even more
devastating.
The danger is that this new forced migration will fuel
existing conflicts and generate new ones in the areas of the
world ? the poorest ? where resources are most scarce.
Movement on this scale has the potential to de-stabilise whole
regions where increasingly desperate populations compete for
dwindling food and water.
