26. Climate Memo Mondays, June 7, 2021
Kate Aronoff, Overheated.
“Climate change is poised to cause the
largest mass migration in human history, as millions are forced to leave homes
rendered uninhabitable by rising sea levels, unbearable heat, and declining
crop yields. The best estimates hold
that warming could displace anywhere between twenty-five million and one
billion people. . . . 16.1 million people were displaced in 2018 by weather related
disasters.” “Border and immigration
policies, in other words are climate policies,” yet at present the US has no
admission policy for climate refugees, and the House Select Committee on the
Climate Crisis’s 538-page climate plan treats human migration “mainly as a
menace,” although it recommended admitting “50,000 ‘climate displaced persons
per year.’” (Aronoff, 322, 324).
And when you add US policies that
exacerbate the rising temperate, it’s no wonder immiseration, violence, wars,
and people fleeing result.
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