Hundreds of millions of people are likely to be forced to migrate over just the next 3 decades due to rapidly deteriorating farmland productivity in many regions — caused by modern chemical- and fertilizer-heavy farming practices, overgrazing, deforestation, flash-flood events, and increasing drought — a new study has found.
Over the coming century, large portions of the most densely inhabited parts of the world will become essentially incapable of supporting human populations above very limited nomadic levels. The people living in these regions will be left with a simple choice: migrate or die.
The number of migrants making their way into the European Union will nearly triple by the year 2100 if rapid climate warming occurs, according to a new study published in the journal Science.
One of the real riddles out there as regards the future effects of anthropogenic climate change is with regard to the inevitable mass migrations. The situation on the Indian subcontinent, in particular, really makes one wonder. Where do ~2 billion some people go when the region they are living in becomes truly uninhabitable?
