As COP26 winds on, think of future climate refugees

The Syrian Refugee Crisis’ 14 million displaced people was a fraction of what is to come

Michael Barnard
The Future is Electric
3 min readNov 6, 2021

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The Syrian Refugee Crisis was climate migration writ small. Based on the literature, I attribute about 10% of the causation of the Syrian Civil War to climate change. It exacerbated the regional drought that made both grazing and…

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Michael Barnard
The Future is Electric

Climate futurist and advisor. Founder TFIE. Advisor FLIMAX. Podcast Redefining Energy - Tech.