| Comment | I don't think they were saying they, personally, are climate refugees. The way I read it was that they're saying that there are people out there right now who are climate refugees because they're having to leave coastal towns and cities due to rising sea levels, and other places where the climate is getting more and more difficult to live in and causing droughts and famine. And that is true. It's just that these people are not as visible or acknowledged as war refugees. They're trying to argue against the idea that climate change is far off, or having no effect on anything, when objectively it is, it's just not very visible for those of us in places like the UK where the effects we've experienced haven't been that severe. It's not absolutely imminent, but if we carry on, coastal towns in the UK are going to have to be abandoned as coastal erosion speeds up due to higher than usual sea levels and tides. But by the time we're likely to find ourselves as climate refugees, it's going to be probably past the point of no return. |
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