[Peace-discuss] Is this a previewq of what can happen here due to our casual disregard for the ecosystem in favor of economic development?

[LAURIE SOLOMON]

One has to wonder if this is an advance preview of man's ability to destroy
the very eco-system that he depends on for life.  It will be interesting to
speculate how things will be handled when the number of refugees around the
world begins increasing from year to year and those who had been relocated
need to be relocated again and again.

 

Chinese Plan to Relocate 150 Million Eco Refugees 
 <http://www.truthout.org/052109M?n> http://www.truthout.org/052109M?n 
Jonathan Watts, The Guardian UK: "Dust storms hit his village in Gansu
province more often than in the past. The water table is falling.
Temperatures rise year by year. Yet Huang says this is an improvement. Three
years ago the government relocated him from an area where the river ran dry
and the well became so salinated that people who drank from it fell sick....
Huang is one of millions of Chinese eco-refugees who have been resettled
because their home environments degraded to the point where they were no
longer fit for human habitation."

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