Earth in the Balance: on Immigration


Global warming will cause Third World flight to the West

Among the most dramatic effects [of an environmental crisis], if the historical record is any guide, will be massive migrations of people from areas where civilization is disrupted to other areas where they hope to find the means for survival & a better way of life-but with unpredictable consequences for those areas. About 10 million residents of Bangladesh will lose their homes and means of sustenance because of the rising sea level, due to global warming, in the next few decades. Where will they go?
Source: Earth in the Balance, page 73 Jul 2, 1993

  • The above quotations are from Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, by Al Gore.
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2012 Presidential contenders on Immigration:
  Democrats:
Pres.Barack Obama(IL)
V.P.Joe Biden(DE)

Republicans:
Gov.Mitt Romney(MA)
Rep.Paul Ryan(WI) 		Third Parties:
Green: Dr.Jill Stein(MA)
Libertarian: Gov.Gary Johnson(NM)
Justice: Mayor Rocky Anderson(UT)
Constitution: Rep.Virgil Goode(VA)
Peace+Freedom: Roseanne Barr(HI)
Reform Party: André Barnett(NY)
AmericansElect: Gov.Buddy Roemer(LA)
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