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Friday, June 22nd, 2018

War, Climate Change, and Migration

Author:     Stephan A. Schwartz
Source:     Explore - The Journal of Science and Healing
Publication Date:     May–June, 2018Volume 14, Issue 3, Pages 172–176
Link: War, Climate Change, and Migration
Stephan:   The immigration issues we are experiencing in the U.S., as well as the migration crises we see around the world, all arise from social disruption because of war or climate change. Denying the existence of climate change,  doesn't mean it isn't happening, only that we are going to be unprepared for it as a country. I wrote this essay when I took the time to dig into the social outcome data of what is actually going on. Here's what I found. In addition to people coming to our borders we are going to experience three massive internal migrations, away from the coasts because of sea rise, out of the southwest because of temperatures and lack of water, and out of the central states because of violent weather events like tornadoes. Get ready, whether you like it or not these trends are going to change your life.

Climate Refugees

Although the U.S. news today, as it so often is these days, is lost in a miasma of administration wife beaters, porn star pay-offs, mafia-like corruption, and other topics more appropriate to reality entertainment shows than news, there is beneath this toxic cloud what I believe has become the defining political issue of the day, even if it is not much discussed in its global context? I am speaking here of the vast movement of people that is occurring; a migration that is creating immense misery among the migrants and the rise of a virulent form of nativistic racism in segments of the population in the nations where these moving populations end up. This trend has created stresses that are literally tearing cultures apart.

In Europe and the Americas it is changing governments; it led to BREXIT and elected Donald Trump. Yet, except for a small community of scientists who study these issues, few seem to comprehend that as disruptive as these migrations already are we are just at the […]

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