Looking ahead: The compound effect of Islam, climate change and catastrophe refugees

Submitted by Tracy W (Canada), Feb 7, 2007 at 01:51

We can't look at Islam in the West today without taking into consideration future crises caused by climate change. Crops will fail creating famine. Coastal areas will be flooded. Some regions will become too hot and unsuitable for habitation. The equatorial regions are often mentioned as most susceptible to global warming.

This is not something that will happen far into the future, but maybe in just a couple of decades. Although it may not seem relevant to the issues being discussed here, in my view they are related. We have been talking about the gradual influx of Islamic migrants into the West. But what will we do if a major crisis confronts us with thousands or millions of refugees at once and we have the humane duty to take them in.

The West does not have a plan because we can't anticipate exactly how climate change is going to affect the planet. All we know is that things are going to become a lot more complicated and challenging than they are now.

We must have a plan long before this becomes a reality, in terms of logistics, expectations, resources available, integration, etc.

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