OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #180, MAY 27, 2024.

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #180, MAY 27, 2024.  Compiled by Dick Bennett.

Refugees

Ecowatch.   “World Breaches 1.5°C for an Entire Year for First Time on Record.”

Wennersten and Robbins.  Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century.

Todd Miller.  Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security. 

 

The Climate Moment, Stories from this unique moment on Earth ....   “What's happening with the climate?!  World Breaches 1.5°C for an Entire Year for First Time on Record.”

https://www.ecowatch.com/average-global-temperature-record-2024-paris-agreement.html

 

For the first time on record, the average global temperature has exceeded 1.5 degree Celsius over a 12-month period, according to new data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).   This year had the hottest January worldwide since C3S records began in 1950.

 

Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century by

John R. Wennersten and Denise Robbins.   06/12/2017

In 2020 the United Nations projects that we will have 50 million environmental refugees mostly from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. How will people be relocated and settled?
Writers LIVE: John R. Wennersten and Denise Robbins, Rising Tide ...

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Detailing a number of solutions, John R. Wennersten and Denise Robbins argue that no nation can tackle this universal problem alone.

 

Todd Miller.  Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security.  2017.    
Millions of climate refugees and the vicious response of wealthy governments with their militarized borders.  Miller calls instead for “cross-border solidarity.”
"As Todd Miller shows in this important and harrowing book, climate-driven migration is set to become one of the defining issues of our time. We are at a political crossroads: continue hardening under the steadily creeping politics of xenophobia and the repressive militarization of border and immigration policy, or change course and plan for a just adaption to a hotter world. At stake is not only the well-being of immigrants but also the integrity and feasibility of democratic government itself. This is a must-read book."––Christian Parenti, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence

"Todd Miller reports from the cracks in the walls of the global climate security state—militarized zones designed to keep powerful elites safe from poor and uprooted peoples. Weapons of war shoot to kill refugees from rising seas, superstorms, no rain and no food. Hyped-up fears morph climate justice activists into terrorists; the security state targets any and all of the poor and powerless. Despite growing millions of climate refugees caught in the crosshairs of border enforcement regimes, Miller finds hope—hope that may not survive in Trumpworld."––Molly Molloy, Research librarian for Latin America and the border at New Mexico State University and creator of "Frontera