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> > clip - Central America is, in fact, “ground zero” for climate change in > the Americas, as University of Arizona hydrology and atmospheric sciences > professor Chris Castro > <http://has.arizona.edu/people/christopher-l-castro> told me. And on that > isthmus, the scrambling of the seasons, an increasingly deadly combination > of drenching hurricanes and parching droughts, will hit people already > living in the most precarious economic and political situations. Across > Honduras, for example, more than > <http://www.elfaro.net/es/201507/internacionales/17241/Campesinos-hondure%C3%B1os-pasan-hambre-por-la-sequ%C3%ADa.htm?st-full_text=all&tpl=11> > 76% > of the population lives in conditions of acute poverty. The coming climate > breakdowns will only worsen that or will, as Castro put it, be part of a > global situation in which “the wet gets wetter, the dry gets drier, the > rich get richer, the poor get poorer. Everything gets more extreme.” > > Now, homeland security regimes are increasingly unleashing their wrath on > the world’s growing numbers of displaced people, sharpening the divide > between the secure and the dispossessed > <http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo22669058.html>. > Whether in Mexico or on the Mediterranean Sea, as ever more human beings > find themselves uprooted from their homes and desperate, such dynamics will > only intensify in the decades to come. In the process, the geopolitics and > potentially the very geography of the globe will be reshaped. It’s not > just Donald Trump. Everywhere on Planet Earth, we seem to be entering the > era of the wall. > > Though the numbers are often debated, the United Nations High Commission > for Refugees suggests that climate breakdowns will displace > <https://academicimpact.un.org/content/predicted-rising-tide-migration> 250 > million people by 2050. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre > suggests that those numbers could actually range from 150 million to a > staggering 350 million by that year. In reporting on how climate change is > already affecting Mexico City, Michael Kimmelman, the architecture critic > of the *New York Times*, cited > <https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/17/world/americas/mexico-city-sinking.html> > a > report suggesting that the number may be far higher than that, possibly > reaching 700 million -- and that, by 2050, 10% percent of all Mexicans > between 15 and 65 might be heading north, thanks to rising temperatures, > droughts, and floods. > > Most climate-displaced people travelling internationally without > authorization will sooner or later run up against those walls and the armed > border guards meant to turn them back. And if the United States or the > European Union is their destination, any possible doors such migrants might > enter will be slammed shut by countries that, historically, are the world’s > largest greenhouse gas polluters and so most implicated in climate change. > > full article- > http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176360/tomgram%3A_todd_ > miller%2C_the_market_in_walls_is_growing_in_a_warming_world/#more > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
