{"id":6709,"date":"2016-06-30T07:34:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T07:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6709"},"modified":"2016-06-30T07:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T07:34:40","slug":"do-we-need-to-learn-to-be-more-welcoming-of-natures-migrants-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/06\/30\/do-we-need-to-learn-to-be-more-welcoming-of-natures-migrants-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we need to learn to be more welcoming of nature\u2019s migrants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made a contribution to NAEE's blog the other day exploring whether\u00a0we need to learn to be more welcoming of nature\u2019s migrants if we are to combat climate change. \u00a0This was a column I'd written a while back for the NAEE journal, <em>Environmental Education<\/em>. \u00a0It begins ...<\/p>\n<p>\"The current migration of people into Europe from North Africa, the Middle East, and farther afield because of war and other social turmoil has already been linked to climate change\u00a0\u2013 not only\u00a0because this has been seen as a contributor to the conflicts within Syria, but also in\u00a0the sense that what we are seeing now is likely to be a harbinger of things to come as the world warms further and greater numbers of people will seek more hospitable (in every sense) places to live. \u00a0Migration applies not just to people, but to nature more generally, and a new report from the RSPB: \u2018The Nature of Climate Change \u2013 Europe\u2019s wildlife at risk\u2019\u00a0explores the issues. \u00a0This is part of Mike Clarke\u2019s introduction which lays out the issue clearly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe are at a point in recent geological history where the rate of human-induced climate change will far outstrip the ability of species to adapt successfully, especially when the resilience of nature has been reduced by habitat loss, non-native species introductions and over-exploitation. \u00a0The disruption to the web of life is a threat not just to wildlife, but to the lives of people around the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And ends ...<\/p>\n<p>\"As I hinted at the outset, there are some parallels in all this with the current debate about the migration of peoples, although there are clearly important differences as well. \u00a0For example, some of the language regularly used in relation to plants and animals cannot be used about people. \u00a0But it\u2019s possible that a discussion of the migration of plants and animals, and how tolerant we should be of the benefits and problems they bring, might ease a consideration of the much more difficult topic of the immigration of people.\"<\/p>\n<p>............................................<\/p>\n<p>You will find the whole blog\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/naee.org.uk\/do-we-need-to-learn-to-be-more-welcoming-of-natures-migrants\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a contribution to NAEE's blog the other day exploring whether\u00a0we need to learn to be more welcoming of nature\u2019s migrants if we are to combat climate change. \u00a0This was a column I'd written a while back for the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}