Alex Randall
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22 appearances
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first heard Aug 2013
last heard Aug 2013
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What Chris Bryant was quoting in his speech was a kind of adding up all of the people who've been displaced by any kind of natural disaster.
and labelling them climate refugees.
And that's problematic for a number of reasons.
Firstly, because the relationship between natural disasters and climate change is complicated.
It's certainly true that climate change might be making some of those particular disasters more likely, but it's certainly not the case that we can attribute all of those individual displacements to climate change alone.
The idea that in the event of a natural disaster, people will immediately move long distances and permanently is mistaken.
People tend to move short distances longer.
for a short period of time and then move back.
If it becomes increasingly difficult for a farming community to sustain their livelihood by growing the crops that they have been, what's likely to happen is that in response to that, rather than all of them at once upping sticks and moving to another country, the likely response is that one or two household members will move.
probably within their own country and probably to a big urban centre, to a city nearby.
They'll then work and send money back to their family.
What Chris Bryant was quoting in his speech was a kind of adding up all of the people who've been displaced by any kind of natural disaster.
and labelling them climate refugees.
And that's problematic for a number of reasons.
Firstly, because the relationship between natural disasters and climate change is complicated.
It's certainly true that climate change might be making some of those particular disasters more likely, but it's certainly not the case that we can attribute all of those individual displacements to climate change alone.
The idea that in the event of a natural disaster, people will immediately move long distances and permanently is mistaken.
People tend to move short distances longer.
for a short period of time and then move back.
If it becomes increasingly difficult for a farming community to sustain their livelihood by growing the crops that they have been, what's likely to happen is that in response to that, rather than all of them at once upping sticks and moving to another country, the likely response is that one or two household members will move.
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