... Myers, a fellow at Oxford University, stresses that "the consequences of large numbers of environmental refugees would be among the most significant of all upheavals entrained by global warming." In 1995, the number of global environmental refugees was estimated at 25 million (Myers, 2005). By 2050, he estimates, about 150 million people (1.5 percent of the total projected world population for ... to the enduring nature of this emergent phenomenon. Of the abundant proposed solutions to migration and environmental crises - ranging from the Kyoto Protocol's international effort to stem glo...

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... and not it includes a new additional element, which is "the protection of the environment from irreversible degradation by combating, among other things, acid rain, desertification, forest destruction, ozone pollution, and global warming. In a world in which environmental degradation crosses national borders with abandon, environmental security has impelled states to find cooperative rather than competitive solutions. Therefore we can say that nowadays ecological ... ...

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