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In reply to the discussion: Four BILLION people could die by 2050 due to climate change [View all]Johnny2X2X
(24,637 posts)The upheaval and turmoil will give authoritarians issues to run on like immigration.
Mass migration because of climate change is already occurring and it's almost never discussed as such. In the US, much of the immigration we've seen at the Southern border is partially due to climate change. Subsistence farming in the mountains of Central and South America has become rarer because climate change has shutdown some systems that brought nutrients to those regions. This prompted millions of people to leave small towns and head to the cities looking for work thus taxing the infrastructure in those cities and overcrowding them leading to higher crime and gangs that families flee by heading North. We're seeing the same thing in Europe. It's not going to slow down.