Nicholas Stern: Climate change will create billions of refugees, extended world war

[+Green Blog]

Lord Nicholas Stern, British economist and academic who is most known for the Stern Review said, during an improvised speech at a Cape Town hotel in South Africa, that if we don̢۪t act quickly and determinedly to address climate change the world will face billions of climate refugees and extended world wars in a near future:

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[mountainhiker]

Nothing like a dedicated Chicken Little!

[Simon]

Nothing like a dedicated Chicken Little!

Huh? :crazy:

[mountainhiker]

Huh? :crazy:

Stern, often has the problem of tossing out bogus figures "billions of climate refugees" with nothing to back them up. He is noted for trying to scare people instead of using reasonable arguments. It was stated that this was a "shoot from the hip" presentation and not one that he had prepared for. <_<