Study: Global warming may drive 10% of Mexicans to US

Concerned American wrote:

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You do realize the tea party crowd coined and proudly used the term "teabagger" for quite a while before they found out it had another meaning.
Unless you can find a reference to somebody calling themselves a "stupid Donkey F-cker" I think you owe Northie an apology.

I think you owe me an appology, because the term was coined by David Schuster on MSNBC when he sat in for Kieth Olberman.

Here is the transcript: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30210576/

Northie used a vulgar sexual term to describe a political movement he did not like and so did I.

YouHelpFixIt wrote:

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I think you owe me an appology, because the term was coined by David Schuster on MSNBC when he sat in for Kieth Olberman.
Here is the transcript: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30210576/
Northie used a vulgar sexual term to describe a political movement he did not like and so did I.

David Schuster may have used the term, but it was around long before that.

Here is an article from the conservative National Review that provides the history of the term:

http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/...

In the next link, I am not making fun of the woman. She probably had no idea what teabagging meant, but she seemed quite proud of herself.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ebroodle/protestors-n...

Do the right thing. Tell Northie you are sorry.

Concerned American wrote:

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David Schuster may have used the term, but it was around long before that.
Here is an article from the conservative National Review that provides the history of the term:
http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/...
In the next link, I am not making fun of the woman. She probably had no idea what teabagging meant, but she seemed quite proud of herself.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ebroodle/protestors-n...
Do the right thing. Tell Northie you are sorry.

I am not sorry, I intended the term to be vulgar, sexual in nature, and intentionally derogatory, just as did Northie did. It appears that you cannot see that both terms should not be used in polite conversation and it is clear that accept rude behavior from one side but not another.

And I think you are wrong, if you read the National Review story it indicates the term was first used after the April 15 2009 Protests, but David Schuster used the term two days prior (I have already posted the link to the transcripts). If you would like to show any evidence that the term was used prior to that please do so, but honestly does it make a difference. Your argument that a few people used the term not knowing what it meant so now it is ok to use the term whenever you like is utterly ridiculous. If that were the case then every racial/religious epithet imaginable would now be acceptable.

Hello and thank you for this article. So-called environmentally induced migration is multi-level problem. According to Essam El-Hinnawi definition form 1985 environmental refugees as those people who have been forced to leave their traditional habitat, temporarily or permanently, because of a marked environmental disruption (natural or triggered by people) that jeopardised their existence and/or seriously affected the quality of their life. The fundamental distinction between `environmental migrants` and `environmental refugees` is a standpoint of contemporsry studies in EDPs.

According to Bogumil Terminski it seems reasonable to distinguish the general category of environmental migrants from the more specific (subordinate to it) category of environmental refugees.

Environmental migrants, therefore, are persons making a short-lived, cyclical, or longerterm change of residence, of a voluntary or forced character, due to specific environmental factors. Environmental refugees form a specific type of environmental migrant.

Environmental refugees, therefore, are persons compelled to spontaneous, short-lived, cyclical, or longer-term changes of residence due to sudden or gradually worsening changes in environmental factors important to their living, which may be of either a short-term or an irreversible character.

According to Norman Myers environmental refugees are “people who can no longer gain a secure livelihood in their homelands because of drought, soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and other environmental problems, together with associated problems of population pressures and profound poverty”.

Not with the Obama economy, fewer Mexicans are coming than ever before.

That's one promise Obama kept. Too bad we have horrendous unemployment as a side effect. Still, he did succeed at one thing and I credit Obama with reducing illegal border crossings.

What happened to the climate refugees?

In 2005, the United Nations Environment Programme predicted that climate change would create 50 million climate refugees by 2010. These people, it was said, would flee a range of disasters including sea level rise, increases in the numbers and severity of hurricanes, and disruption to food production.

The UNEP even provided a handy map. The map shows us the places most at risk including the very sensitive low lying islands of the Pacific and Caribbean.

It so happens that just a few of these islands and other places most at risk have since had censuses, so it should be possible for us now to get some idea of the devastating impact climate change is having on their populations. Let’s have a look at the evidence:
http://asiancorrespondent.com/52189/what-happ...

Brian_G wrote:

Not with the Obama economy, fewer Mexicans are coming than ever before.

Thanks for your perspective, Teabags, but, as usual, there's more to the story.

Mexican birthrates have dropped, the Mexican economy has improved relative to the US, and the US is turning into a police state with enormously larger forces patrolling borders and deporting illegal immigrants. Furthermore, this is a global depression, if you haven't noticed, so people in nearly all countries have less ability to move.

Nauseous wrote:

Furthermore, this is a global depression, if you haven't noticed, so people in nearly all countries have less ability to move.

I see, so that's what happened to the 50 million climate refugees, they're stuck due to the depression?
How sad, it never rains for some, it pours.
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