The government of Panama recognizes that many of the people don�t want to move. The younger the person is, the more likely they are to accept the move. The most able-bodied and highly educated people will move first. Thus, the least employed, the most ill, the oldest and weakest and most disabled, the least willing to move, will be the ones left behind.
—Scott Leckie, Director of Displacement Solutions
The New York Times: "Scott Leckie, Director of Displacement Solutions, a Geneva-based organization that works with people displaced by climate change." Coral Davenport, "Rising Seas," The New York Times, March 27, 2014.