High water
Credit: IBT
Wildfires tearing across Southern California have forced thousands of residents to evacuate from their homes. Even more people fled ahead of the hurricanes that slammed into Texas and Florida earlier this year, jamming highways and filling hotels. A viral social media post showed a flight-radar picture of people trying to escape Florida and posed a provocative question: What if the adjoining states were countries and didn’t grant escaping migrants refuge?
By the middle of this century, experts estimate that climate change is likely to displace between 150 and 300 million people. If this group formed a country, it would be the fourth-largest in the world, with a population nearly as large as that of the United States.
Yet neither individual countries nor the global community are completely prepared to support a whole new class of “climate migrants.” As a physician and public health researcher in India, I learned the value of surveillance and early warning systems for managing infectious disease outbreaks. Based on […]
We are preparing. That’s what the border wall is about.
The wall isn’t about people coming in to take jobs,,,that could be stopped by simple mandatory validation of their social security numbers or as is proposed by the GOP giving millions of additional “temporary” worker visas for people that could stay for an indeterminate time at the whim of their employer.
Lots of countries are doing it. Not exactly an illustration of empathy and altruism.
Info here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_barrier