The UN’s Missing 50 Million Climate Refugees. Tim Blair, “The UN should stick to its core business of being wrong.”
In 2005, the United Nations predicted the world would be swarming with 50 million climate change refugees by 2010.
Then 2010 arrived, but many nations the UN claimed were most likely to be the source of climate refugees had all increased their populations.
So in 2011 the UN pushed the date back, declaring that 50 million climate refugees would be upon us by 2020.
Well, 2020 is here but again the refugees are not.
Evidently annoyed by the stubborn refusal of these victims to appear, the UN is now attempting a different strategy.
If climate refugees won’t show up in sufficient numbers, the UN will simply invent them.
That seems to be the thinking behind a UN move that would compel Australia and other nations to accept as climate change refugees people whose home countries are deemed to be under environmental threat.
If this move is enforced, it would create an instant country-shopping opportunity for citizen of qualifying nations.
Australia would be a prime choice. The UN should stick to its core business of being wrong.