'Stopping the boats' is one thing, stopping the weather is another

Tony Abbott’s pre-election promise to “stop the boats” and his rather disparaging view of climate change is a perverse conflict.

Most of the boats he refers to carry people looking for escape conflict and so they are refugees from war, but now Australia’s borders will be under increasing pressure from those escaping extreme weather.

Vice News reports that: “Extreme Weather Displaces Far More People Than War — And It's GettingWorse”.

It reports: “Experts warned on Thursday that governments need to prepare themselves for a growing and often overwhelming influx of migrants. The displaced won't be fleeing the horrors of the battlefield, they said, but environmental disasters, made more frequent and severe by climate change.”