A warming climate could see millions of adult Mexicans migrate to the US as rising temperatures cause a drop in crop yields, according to a study by researchers at Princeton University.
| Or it could lead to a change to heat resistant varieties of traditional food crops. Or possibly, northern Mexican communities could adapt to traditional southern Mexican ingredients. Oddly enough, people have been known to try new foods elsewhere in the world, like in the U.S., where they now eat burritos with gusto (and salsa, when they can get it). |
For every 10% of lost crop yields in Mexico, 2% more Mexicans are likely leave their country, the study says.
The research draws a connection between both climate change and immigration - two heavily debated issues in the US.
It claims warming may bring from 1.4m to 6.7m Mexicans to the US by 2080.
| Shut the border. And commence developing heat-resistant varieties of traditional Mexican crops immediately in border state agricultural colleges. That way we'll be ready when the time comes... which it should do, sometime in the next several millenia. |
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