{"id":373,"date":"2009-03-02T17:14:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T21:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2009-03-02T17:14:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T21:14:35","slug":"climate-change-alters-species-range-for-h-sapiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2009\/03\/02\/climate-change-alters-species-range-for-h-sapiens\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change alters species range for H. sapiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/22\/AR2009022202378.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article <\/a>in last week\u2019s Washington Post highlights a few of the many thousands of people and families across the globe who are leaving their homelands behind in fear of global warming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The article mentions the country of Kiribati, a Pacific archipelago, where the government is trying to figure out how to move its 100,000 inhabitants off the island because of a steadily rising ocean level. \u00a0Environmental disasters such as flooding, droughts and fires have affected people all over the globe in recent decades, and although many are in some of the world\u2019s poorest areas \u2013 between 10 and 20 million people Bangladesh and northern Africa, in the last decade, for example \u2013 first-world countries are not immune, as we saw during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The problem becomes a political one when a people needs to move not only themselves but their culture en masse to a new homeland , and history shows that conflicts and wars often arise after mass migrations. \u00a0The Post article reported:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cPresident Anote Tong of Kiribati asked the international community this month to start thinking of ways to help entire nations relocate to higher ground. He called for an international fund to buy land for such mass migrations and said his nation\u2019s citizens are prepared to pay for a new homeland.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Even individuals are moving. A NASA engineer and Maryland resident picked up his family and moved them to New Zealand, in part because of the risk of global warming and the purported \u2018greener\u2019 way of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">We so often hear of species\u2019 ranges expanding or contracting based on the supposed effects of climate change. Even with all our technology to help us withstand the elements, will ecologists turn to modeling predicted range changes of the entire human species?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in last week\u2019s Washington Post highlights a few of the many thousands of people and families across the globe who are leaving their homelands behind in fear of global warming. The article mentions the country of Kiribati, a Pacific archipelago, where the government is trying to figure out how to move its 100,000 inhabitants off the island because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecology-in-policy","category-ecology-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}