Climate Emergency May Displace 216 Million Within Countries by 2050: World Bank

From this article on a new report from The World Bank, an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.

Underscoring the necessity of immediate and sweeping action to take on the climate emergency, a World Bank report revealed Monday that 216 million people across six global regions could be forced to move within their countries by midcentury.

Groundswell Part 2: Acting on Internal Climate Migration includes analyses for East Asia and the Pacific, North Africa, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, building on a modeling approach from a 2018 report that covered Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America.

“The Groundswell report is a stark reminder of the human toll of climate change, particularly on the world’s poorest—those who are contributing the least to its causes,” said Juergen Voegele, vice president of sustainable development at the World Bank, in a statement.

Sea-level rise is due to a combination of the expanding volume of sea water brought on by higher ocean temperatures, as well as the melting of ice on Greenland and the Antarctic.  It’s exacerbated by storms that are becoming more ferocious that blow ocean waters inland, again, due to global warming.

At this point, human civilization needs a miracle, some technological breakthrough that is not even on the drawing board at this time.  Yes, we’re expanding our production of solar and wind at an impressive pace, but our demand for energy, renewable or otherwise, is on the rise as well.

It’s possible that advanced nuclear will save the day; they say we’re 30 years away from commercial deployment.  Of course that’s what they were saying when I was a boy, 55 years ago.