New Zealand Courts and the Climate Refugee Dilemma

The Diplomat ^ | 05/26/2014 | Jarni Blakkarly

[aimhigh]

A Kiribati man faces deportation after a New Zealand refuses to accept a ‘climate refugee’ claim. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) predicts there will be somewhere between 25 million and 1 billion people [internally or externally displaced] by the effects of climate change by 2050, with 200 million the closest specific estimate.

Lawyers for Teitota tried to argue that he faced “passive persecution” from climate change, however the court ruled that the definition of persecution did not meet that of the Refugee Convention.

[aimhigh]

The sky is falling, the sea is rising. As a wise freeper once said, "We're all going to die. Women and children first, of course."

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So now they’re going to use climate change to effect Camp of the Saints.

[Matchett-PI]

Get ready for Obama to declare Mexican illegals as “climate refugees”.

bttt

[spokeshave]

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) predicts there will be somewhere between 25 million and 1 billion people [internally or externally displaced] by the effects of climate change by 2050, with 200 million the closest specific estimate

Not to worry...when the Sun stops making sunspots around 2017/18....and we get a new Maunder Minimum....resulting drop in world wide grain production will see off a few billion people.

[cripplecreek]

People on the beach at Marquette Michigan yesterday.