While many commentators warn of the impending eclipse of Europe and the US by China in the near future, the upcoming “Chinese Century” will in fact last only a few years. ++ A number of factors account for this. ++ Demographic growth is declining and the number of environmental refugees is set to increase dramatically. ++ Compounding these difficulties, eighty million residential
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Jeffrey D. Sachs writes in the Scientific American that the coming decades may see the mass-migration of hundreds of millions of “environmental refugees” seeking better living conditions and above all available water. It will be important to keep an eye on at least four vulnerable climate zones:
- Coastal areas. The 10% of the global population living in these areas is highly vulnerable to
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