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From Plenty to Devastation

Climate Crisis Refugees Are Headed Towards YOU

Stephen P. Watkins
5 min readJul 6, 2019

Little attention has been paid in the U.S. press about the cataclysmic movements of the seas into coastal communities around the world, but the flooding of those areas is part of the inexorable catastrophe that is our global climate crisis. Estimates vary, but it is conservatively predicted by the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) that coastal climate migrants’ numbers will reach between 250 million and 500 million people between now and 2050. Most of those people will come from the Third World (“Have-not”) states south of the Equator and they will head north to the First World’s (“Have”) states above the Equator.

These population groups will be massively disadvantaged — and will bring their disadvantages with them — to a country and city near YOU.

First, they won’t speak your language.

Second, they lack education that will allow them to integrate into your economy.

Third, they come from cultures that are fundamentally different from yours.

Fourth, the northern countries will be overwhelmed with demands for food, water, housing, schools, jobs, health care — the basic infrastructure of life.

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Stephen P. Watkins
Stephen P. Watkins

Written by Stephen P. Watkins

Top Writer in Politics. Author of “The ‘Plenty’ Book — the Answer to the Question: What Can I do to Make This a Better World?,” available on Amazon.com

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