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Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 20, 2022, 9:57 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/somali-boys-mission-food-climate-093805272.html
[quote]DOLLOW, Somalia (Reuters) -Each morning in this Somali
border town, 11-year-old Bashir Nur Salat plots his day's
mission behind a crooked wire fence. Armed with only a friend's
yellow school shirt, a borrowed book and toothy grin, he eyes
his prize through the mesh: lunch.
Bashir lives where three crises converge - global warming,
spiralling food prices and war. He, like millions of others in
Somalia, are in the crosshairs of what some aid workers are
calling the "The Three Cs": climate change, costs and conflict.
...
"When I don't get food, I'm so hungry: I lie down and I can't
sleep," Bashir said quietly. He had eaten no dinner the night
before nor breakfast that morning. His eight brothers and
sisters at home were all hungry, he said.[/quote]
Migrate to the EU ASAP! It will only get worse if you stay, and
harder to migrate later!
[quote]At least 448 children have died since January while being
treated for acute malnutrition, the United Nations said. The
figures are likely a fraction of the true deaths since many will
have been unable to reach help.
The United Nations warned this month that more than a third of
Somalia's 16 million people need food aid to survive. Some areas
could face famine this month. Aid in some places will run out in
June.
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Such desperation is set to become more common in Somalia, and
beyond, as rising temperatures fuel more natural disasters, many
scientists say. In the last 50 years, extreme weather events
have increased five-fold worldwide, according to the U.N.'s
World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The Horn of Africa, including Somalia, is at its driest on
record. This year's March-to-April rains – the first of two
annual rainy seasons - have been the smallest in 70 years, and
the second rains from October to December are also predicted to
be unusually dry, according to a warning last month from a group
of 14 meteorological and humanitarian associations, including
the WMO.
"We've never seen a four-season drought before, and now we're
likely to see a fifth" in October, said climatologist Chris Funk
from the Climate Hazards Center at the University of California,
Santa Barbara.
"This drought has been made much more likely due to climate
change," Funk said.
...
Ocean warming may also play a part. Climate scientist Abubakr
Salih Babiker of the WMO Regional Office for Africa said the
Indian Ocean is among the fastest-warming water bodies in the
world.
With oceans absorbing much of the increasing atmospheric heat,
scientists believe warming Indian Ocean waters may be
evaporating and raining down more rapidly over the ocean before
reaching the Horn of Africa, leaving dry air to sweep across the
land.
Another factor: air temperatures in Somalia have increased an
average 1.7 degrees Celsius from the preindustrial average –
faster than the global average of 1.2 degrees, said Babiker.
Warmer air speeds up evaporation from soil and plants.
The Horn of Africa has seen other climate-linked disasters in
recent years - damaging floods, a record number of cyclones and
vast locust swarms - leaving the region staggering from one
crisis to the next, he said.
"There's no time for recovery," Babiker said.[/quote]
Remember which one particular civilization is to blame for all
of the above, and take back from them everything they owe you!
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Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 22, 2022, 9:35 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/dams-taps-running-dry-northern-120215430.html
[quote]More than half of Mexico is currently facing moderate to
severe drought conditions, according to the federal water
commission CONAGUA, amid extreme heat that scientists blame on
climate change.
In the sprawling metropolitan area of Monterrey, home to some
5.3 million people, the drought and years of below-average
rainfall have led to citywide water shortages.
"We're in an extreme climate crisis," Nuevo Leon Governor Samuel
Garcia said at a news conference last week. "Today, we're all
living it and suffering."
...
multiple times a day, in termperatures approaching 40 degrees
Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), Robles trods back and forth from the
water tank, alongside fellow residents hauling buckets or
pushing baby strollers filled with jugs.
One afternoon last week she'd just finished her last trip when
she remembered her hard-of-hearing neighbor.
"What else can we do?" she asked, before heading to the tank a
final time. "We need water to live."[/quote]
You can migrate to the US (or even Canada)! There will not be
enough water to go round in Mexico at the current population.
But if enough emigrate, the reduced population remaining then
gets more water per person. It is common sense.
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Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 25, 2022, 8:51 pm
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HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10949305/More-2-000-migrants-storm-fence-Spanish-enclave-bordering-Morocco-chaotic-scenes.html
[quote]Some 2,000 migrants made approached the EU's only land
border with Africa at dawn over 500 managed to enter a border
control area after cutting a fence with shears, the Spanish
government's local delegation said in a statement.
...
Speaking in Brussels, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez
condemned the 'violent assault' which he blamed on 'mafias who
traffic in human beings'.
Video showed the migrants cheering and raising their arms in
celebration as they ran through the streets of Melilla after
storming the fence.[/quote]
Sanchez is another of those who doesn't understand (or pretends
not to understand) the difference between smuggling and
trafficking:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/debunking-rightist-anti-immigration-arguments/msg9868/?topicseen#msg9868
[quote]Another vocabulary point I want to clear up is the
difference between human smuggling and human trafficking, which
many people nowadays often use interchangeably. Our enemies in
particular like to call human smugglers "human traffickers", for
example:
news.yahoo.com/salvini-dismisses-eu-migrant-ship-proposals-emerg
ency-talks-224118678.html
[quote] "While France and Germany continue to want Italy to
be one of the very few landing countries, we are working on a
solid Mediterranean axis which wants to change the rules and
crush human trafficking," Salvini tweeted.
[/quote]
Of course Salvini is subhuman bullshitting.
Human smuggling involves people who themselves want to migrate,
but who are violently prevented by one or more states from doing
so openly, voluntarily seeking out the smuggler to transport
them under the radar in exchange for money. This is a
contractual agreement of mutual prior consent between the
migrant and the smuggler, therefore wholly non-violent. Of
course there exist greedy smugglers who take advantage of
migrants' desperation (and lack of options during an emergency
refugee crisis) by charging extremely high prices for the
service, but if states were concerned about protecting migrants
from smuggler greed, their best response should be to allow
migrants to enter/leave openly (and indeed offer state-run
transportation as necessary during emergencies), thereby
obviating the need for smuggling.
Human trafficking is a different phenomenon entirely. It
involves people who themselves never agreed to migrate, but who
are violently kidnapped by the trafficker and moved into a
different country without their own consent (often threatened
with death for non-compliance), and in effect become slaves
owned by the trafficker, unable to ever choose their own
occupation/residence/etc. and instead permanently restricted to
work/habitat permitted by the trafficker, often involving
unhealthy/dangerous conditions that the victims would never have
voluntarily subjected themselves to.
In case you haven't noticed by now, deportation = human
trafficking done by a state.Salvini, who talks about crushing
"human trafficking", is the actual trafficker.[/quote]
To supplement this, preventing entry of refugees (such as
Sanchez is doing) can also be considered human trafficking in
effect, in that it violently keeps refugees where they do not
want to be.
Smugglers are the good guys. They help refugees to get where
they themselves want to go. Smugglers make this happen:
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Border troops are the bad guys. They keep refugees where they
themselves do not want to be, and kill them if they resist.
Border troops make this happen:
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Back to first link:
[quote]There are fears that drought in Africa and surging food
prices - even before the war made shipping Ukrainian grain to
Somalia, Egypt and other poor nations impossible - could drive
up the number of migrants fleeing to Europe.[/quote]
Refugees need to get armed, or else border troops will just keep
beating them to death. A bladed weapon of some sort should be
the absolute minimum for each refugee prior to an attempt at
crossing a closed border.
[quote]Sanchez earlier this month warned that 'Spain will not
tolerate any use of the tragedy of illegal immigration as a
means of pressure.'
Spain will seek to have 'irregular migration' listed as one of
the security threats on the NATO's southern flank when the
alliance gathers for a summit in Madrid on June 29-30.[/quote]
Looks like we will soon be adding Spain as a whole to the
Enemies forum, considering Sanchez belongs to a nominally
left-leaning party yet wants to keep out refugees. The only
reason I have not done so yet is because, to be fair, Sanchez
did accept some Afghan refugees earlier:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_S%C3%A1nchez
[quote]Following the fall of Kabul and the subsequent de facto
creation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Prime
Minister offered Spain as a hub for Afghans who collaborated
with the European Union, which would later be settled in various
countries.[50] The Spanish government created a temporary
refugee camp in the air base of Torrejón de Ardoz, which was
later visited by officials from the European Union, including
president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and
president of the European Council Charles Michel. Von der Leyen
praised Sánchez government's initiative, stating that the
actions of Spain represents "a good example of the European soul
at its best".[51][/quote]
I will be watching him closely.
[quote]In the Sahel, the part of Africa just below the Sahara
desert, an estimated 18 million people are facing severe hunger
as farmers endure their worst production season in more than a
decade.[/quote]
Their only hope is to get into the EU. As it says on the Nike
sweater:
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Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 28, 2022, 9:45 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/devastating-drought-somalia-explained-092508045.html
[quote]Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee
Council, told Democracy Now! this is "a creeping, devastating
drought, which is coming after four failed rainy seasons. So
it's climate change. It's the climate change that we in the
industrialized world caused. And who is dying from this? The
children of Somalia, from a people who did nothing to cause
climate change."
...
The situation for children is dire, with kids dying every day
from malnutrition. Adam Abdelmoula, the U.N. humanitarian
coordinator for Somalia, told Democracy Now! last week that 1.5
million children under the age of 5 are already malnourished,
"and we expect that 366,000 of them may not survive through the
end of September of this year."[/quote]
If a greater number migrates to the EU, those staying behind
need not die either, as there will then be enough food for them.
[quote]Claire Sanford, deputy humanitarian director for Save the
Children, told The Guardian last week that she has met multiple
mothers in Somalia who have had to bury more than one child this
year due to malnutrition. "I can honestly say in my 23 years of
responding to humanitarian crisis, this is by far the worst I've
seen, particularly in terms of the level of impact on children,"
Sanford said. "The starvation that my colleagues and I witnessed
in Somalia has escalated even faster than we feared."[/quote]
So are you helping those who haven't yet died to relocate to the
EU ASAP?
[quote]The Times spoke with one woman, Hirsiyo Mohamed, who saw
her crops fail and goats die because of the drought. A mother of
eight, she spent four days walking from her home in southwestern
Somalia to an aid camp in the town of Doolow. Before she
arrived, her 3-year-old son, Adan, died, after begging her for
food and water. "We buried him and kept walking," Mohamed told
the Times. Once at the camp, her 8-year-old daughter, Habiba,
already suffering from malnutrition, came down with whooping
cough and died. "This drought has finished us," Mohamed
said.[/quote]
If you had started your journey before the drought arrived, as I
had advised, they could still be alive today.
[quote]The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification defines
famine as "the absolute inaccessibility of food to an entire
population or sub-group of a population, potentially causing
death in the short term." Abdelmoula said there are eight
districts in Somalia that are already experiencing famine, at a
"catastrophic" level, and he warns "that number is bound to
increase, unless — unless — we are able to scale up our response
plan in a very, very major way." This is especially critical as
the next rainy season is also expected to produce below-average
precipitation.[/quote]
The most stupid thing to do is to stay put and wait for aid to
arrive. Move out!
[quote]The country needs money, urgently. Michael Dunford, the
World Food Program's regional director for east Africa, made an
appeal to G7 leaders last week, saying there must be a "massive
scaling-up" of aid in order to avoid total catastrophe.
Immediately, Somalis need food and water, and money must also be
set aside for other measures, like protecting livestock and
reforestation. Funding has been slowly trickling in; the U.N.
says aid donors have pledged just 18 percent of the $1.46
billion it needs for Somalia.
The World Bank recently approved $143 million in International
Development Assistance financing, which will deliver cash to
vulnerable households. Individuals can also donate to
organizations like Save the Children and the Somalia
Humanitarian Fund.[/quote]
No, it doesn't need money. It needs ships and planes to shift
~15 million people into the EU where there is a surplus of
everything needed. If you use vehicles to transport supplies,
you will need to keep doing this over and over again. If you use
vehicles to transport people to where the supplies are already
being sent, you will only need to do it once.
[quote]While the situation is most severe in Somalia, the
drought is also affecting millions of people in Kenya and
Ethiopia. The World Food Program says in Ethiopia, "hunger is
tightening its grip on more than 20 million Ethiopians who are
facing conflict in the north, drought in the south, and
dwindling food and nutrition support," and it is running out of
money to keep up its operations helping "acutely malnourished"
women and children.[/quote]
See? Money will not solve the problem. Only mass climate
migration will.
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Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 4, 2022, 12:15 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMxtgT8EaSU
Everyone affected by this should migrate to
Britain/Australia/Canada/etc.. They've already lost their homes,
so it's not like they have to leave their homes behind!
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Re: Climate refugees
By: Polinc_Socjus Date: July 26, 2022, 2:54 pm
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Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 4, 2022, 5:27 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/tragic-extreme-heat-could-erase-210956282.html
[quote]Rising temperatures could wipe out progress reducing
childhood malnutrition in West Africa, researchers warned in a
study of more than 32,000 children between the ages of 3 and 36
months.
...
Stunted growth from malnutrition was nearly 6% more prevalent
among children who spent at least 12 days per month in
temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius, or 95 degrees Fahrenheit,
researchers found.
That kind of extreme heat is becoming more frequent as
greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, transportation, and
agriculture warm the planet. If global temperatures rise by 2
degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels — a threshold climate
scientists say is likely without steep emissions cuts — the
average rate of stunted growth among children in West Africa
could nearly double to 7.4%, and erase past gains.[/quote]
Migrate to the EU ASAP.
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Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 29, 2022, 5:11 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-third-pakistan-underwater-more-175239350.html
[quote]Months of monsoon rains have caused massive flooding
across Pakistan, affecting tens of millions of people and
wreaking havoc on infrastructure.
...
“The sad part is that it is not stopping,” Rehman said to DW.
“The rain is relentless. The water is coming down in buckets
from a merciless sky.”
The country has declared a national emergency, deploying the
army and — for the first time in its history — the navy to aid
relief efforts, The Guardian reported and Rehman told DW. Still,
many areas remain inaccessible to emergency responders, who
cannot find dry places to drop badly needed supplies or land
their helicopters, Rehman told Sky News.
A map of the monsoon floods from the United Nations Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Aug. 26 showed
damage across the country with the worst damage in the southern
provinces of Balochistan and Sindh.
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Human-induced climate change has amplified the intensity and
duration of the extreme weather events happening in Pakistan,
Rehman repeatedly explained. “This is very far from a normal
monsoon – it is climate dystopia at our doorstep,” she said, per
Al Jazeera.
“We are at ground zero of a climate dystopia,” she told Channel
4 News.
...
Videos of the floodwater show large buildings collapsing and
washing away with shocking speed. Brown-tinged water rips
through residential areas, other footage shows.[/quote]
The only correct response is mass emigration to the EU, UK and
former British Empire territories (Australia, Canada, etc.).
Even the commenters are starting to get this:
[quote]A big part of the planet will be uninhabitable in 30
years and billions of people will need to move.[/quote]
Better still:
[quote]Climate change affects the poorest people while rich
countries debate over whether it's real.[/quote]
Best of all:
[quote]You need to remove the people with the largest carbon
footprints.[/quote]
which is what the climate refugees can do after they reach their
destinations.
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Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 31, 2022, 3:09 pm
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Finally the issue is being discussed more seriously:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/where-well-end-living-planet-100002527.html
[quote]Where We'll End Up Living as the Planet Burns
...
While nations rally to reduce their carbon emissions, and try to
adapt at-risk places to hotter conditions, there is an elephant
in the room: for large portions of the world, local conditions
are becoming too extreme and there is no way to adapt. People
will have to move to survive.
Over the next fifty years, hotter temperatures combined with
more intense humidity are set to make large swathes of the globe
lethal to live in. Fleeing the tropics, the coasts, and formerly
arable lands, huge populations will need to seek new homes; you
will be among them, or you will be receiving them. This
migration has already begun—we have all seen the streams of
people fleeing drought-hit areas in Latin America, Africa, and
Asia where farming and other rural livelihoods have become
impossible.
The number of migrants has doubled globally over the past
decade, and the issue of what to do about rapidly increasing
populations of displaced people will only become greater and
more urgent as the planet heats.
We can—and we must—prepare. Developing a radical plan for
humanity to survive a far hotter world includes building vast
new cities in the more tolerable far north while abandoning huge
areas of the unendurable tropics. It involves adapting our food,
energy, and infrastructure to a changed environment and
demography as billions of people are displaced and seek new
homes.
...
no place on Earth will be unaffected by climate change.
Everywhere will undergo some kind of transformation in response
to changes in the climate, whether through direct impacts or the
indirect result of being part of a globally interconnected
biophysical and socioeconomic system. Extreme events are already
occurring around the world and will continue to hit “safe”
places. Some places, though, will be more easily adaptable to
these changes, while others will become entirely uninhabitable
fairly quickly. Bear in mind that many places will be
uncomfortable if not intolerable by 2050—around the lifespan of
most mortgages—we need to start planning where we make our homes
now. By 2100 it will be a different planet, so let’s focus on
some of the livable options.
Global heating is shifting the geographical position of our
species’ temperature niche northwards, and people will follow.
The optimum climate for human productivity—the best conditions
for both agricultural and nonagricultural output—turns out to
be an average temperature of 11°C to 15°C, according to a 2020
study. This global niche is where human populations have
concentrated for millennia, including for the entirety of human
civilization, so it’s unsurprising that our crops, livestock and
other economic practices are ideally adapted to these
conditions. The researchers show that, depending on scenarios of
population growth and warming, ‘1 to 3 billion people are
projected to be left outside the climate conditions that have
served humanity well over the past 6,000 years.’ They add that,
‘in the absence of migration, one third of the global population
is projected to experience mean average temperatures [that are
currently found mostly] in the Sahara.’
As a general rule, people will need to move away from the
equator, and from coastlines, small islands (which will shrink
in size), and arid or desert regions. Rainforests and woodlands
are also places to avoid, due to fire risk. Populations are
going to shift inland, towards lakes, higher elevations and
northern latitudes.
Looking at the globe, it is immediately clear that land is
mainly distributed in the north—less than a third of Earth’s
land is in the southern hemisphere and most of that is either in
the tropics or Antarctica. So the scope for climate migrants to
seek refuge in the south is limited. Patagonia is the main
option, although it is already suffering from droughts, but
agriculture and settlement there will remain possible as the
global temperature rises. The main lands of opportunity for
migrants, however, are in the north. Temperatures in these safer
regions will rise—and will rise faster in higher latitudes than
at the equator – but the average absolute temperature will still
be far lower than in the tropics. Of course climate disruption
brings extreme weather, and nowhere will be spared these
increasingly common events—Canada reached temperatures of 50°C
in 2021, making British Columbia hotter than the Sahara Desert,
and then, a few months later, was hit by deadly floods and
landslides that displaced thousands. Fires have blazed across
Siberia’s tundra, and melting permafrost is a shifting, unstable
ground on which to build infrastructure.
Happily, however, the northern latitudes are already home to
wealthier nations that generally have strong institutions and
stable governments that are among the best placed to build
social and technological resilience to the challenges this
century.
Problematically, many of them have also struggled politically
with immigration to a far greater extent than have many much
poorer countries (poor countries also host by far the greatest
numbers of displaced people), and with a migrant “crisis” that
is far smaller than the great climate migration we will see over
the next 75 years. It may be more possible to shift a
political-social mindset in the space of a few years, however,
than to return the tropics to habitability. Consider that most
of Europe’s nations each rely on tens of thousands of migrant
workers just to harvest the crops they grow today. With better
agricultural conditions across the north, the need for labour
will only increase.
North of the 45°N parallel—which runs through Michigan in North
America, France, Croatia, Mongolia, and Xinjiang in China, for
instance—will be the twenty-first century’s booming haven: it
represents 15 per cent of the planet’s area but holds 29 per
cent of its ice free land, and is currently home to a small
fraction of the world’s (aging) people. It’s also entering that
optimum climate for human productivity with mean average
temperatures of around 13°C.
...
Much of the rest of the U.S. will be problematic for one reason
or another. The central corridor will see worsening tornadoes;
below the 42nd parallel, heatwaves, wild fires and drought will
be perilous; at the coasts, flooding, erosion and freshwater
fouling will be an issue. Today’s desirable locations, such as
Florida, California and Hawaii, will be increasingly deserted
for the more pleasant climates of former Rustbelt cities that
will experience a renaissance, as a globally diverse community
of new immigrants revitalizes them.
Alaska looks the best place to live in the U.S., though, and
cities will need to be built to accommodate millions of migrants
heading for the newly busy Anthropocene Arctic. In 2017, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a Climate
Resilience Screening Index, which ranked Kodiak Island, Alaska,
as being at the lowest risk of climate events in the country. By
2047, Alaska could be experiencing average monthly temperatures
similar to Florida today, according to an analysis of climate
models. As with everywhere, location is key, though—the
residents of Newtok, Alaska, are relocating because melting
permafrost and increasing erosion have caused portions of their
village to wash away. The retreat of ice sheets and melting of
tundras is already causing huge problems for indigenous
communities, whose way of life is being irrevocably altered.
Their terrible loss, and that faced by native wildlife—not to
mention other dangers, including unknown pathogens lurking in
the currently frozen tundras, waiting to be exposed—will be
countered by the vast opportunities for development in the New
North. This is where many of the tropical migrants will create
new homes during the turbulent twenty-first century, while
humanity battles to restore a liveable globe. Whether
self-governed indigenous communities will welcome this influx
of southern migrants or reject what is the latest in a long
history of often-violent intrusions remains to be seen. However,
people will move north and they will need to be accommodated.
The New North
With agriculture newly possible and a bustling North Sea Passage
shipping route, the far north will be transformed. The melting
of Greenland’s ice sheet—the largest on Earth after
Antarctica—will expose new areas for people to live, farm and
mine minerals. Buried beneath the Arctic ice of Greenland,
Russia, the U.S. and Canada, there is also useful agricultural
soil and land to build cities upon, giving rise to a hub of
connected Arctic cities.
Nuuk is one such city set to grow rapidly over the coming
decades. The capital of Greenland (an autonomous outpost of
Denmark) sits just below the Arctic Circle, where the effects of
climate change are obvious—residents already talk of the years
‘back when it was cold’. Fisheries here are experiencing a
boost: less ice means boats can fish close to shore year round,
while warmer ocean temperatures have drawn new fish species
further north into Greenland’s waters. Some halibut and cod have
even increased in size, adding commercial value to fish catches.
Land exposed by the retreating ice is opening up new farming
opportunities with a longer growing season and plentiful
irrigation. Nuuk’s farmers are now harvesting new crops,
including potatoes, radishes, and broccoli. The retreating ice
is also exposing mining opportunities and offshore exploration,
including for oil. Nuuk stands at the edge of real economic
gain. The country already has five hydroelectric plants to turn
its abundant meltwater into power. According to projections
Greenland will even have forests by 2100. It may be among the
best places to live.
Similarly, Canada, Siberia and other parts of Russia, Iceland,
the Nordic nations and Scotland will all continue to see
benefits from global heating. Arctic net primary productivity,
which is the amount of vegetation that grows each year, will
nearly double by the 2080s, with an end to cripplingly cold
winters. Growing seasons will significantly expand, particularly
around today’s farmland. The Nordic nations already enjoy
relatively warm temperatures because of the North Atlantic
currents, but continental temperatures, which can plunge below
–40°C in winter, will also ease, making interior locations more
bearable. Nordic nations score comparatively low on climate
change vulnerability and high on adaptive readiness.
Global heating has already boosted Sweden’s per capita GDP by 25
per cent, a Stanford study found. The biggest greenhouse gas
emitters “enjoy on average about 10 per cent higher per capita
GDP today than they would have in a world without warming, while
the lowest emitters have been dragged down by about 25 per
cent,” the researchers found. The moral argument for including
tropical migrants in the economies of the north is clear. The
researchers estimate that India’s GDP per capita has lagged by
31 per cent owing to global heating; Nigeria’s has lagged by 29
per cent; Indonesia’s by 27 per cent; and Brazil’s by 25 per
cent. Together, those four countries hold about a quarter of the
world’s population.
...
Canada will be a key destination for our migrants, and the
government is betting on it, aiming to triple the population by
2100 through immigration. Marshall Burke, Deputy Director of the
Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford
University, calculated that global heating could raise the
average income in Canada by 250 per cent due to greatly expanded
growing seasons, reduced infrastructure costs and increased
maritime shipping.15 With a stable, noncorrupt democracy,
onefifth of the world’s freshwater reserves and as much as 4.2
million square kilometres of newly arable farmland, Canada could
be the world’s new breadbasket later this century.
Russia will be another net winner—its 2020 national action plan
explicitly describes ways to “use the advantages” of climate
warming. According to the U.S. National Intelligence Council,
Russia “has the potential to gain the most from increasingly
temperate weather.” The country is already the world’s biggest
exporter of wheat, and its agricultural dominance is set to grow
as its climate improves. By 2080, more than half of Siberia’s
permafrost will have gone, making the frozen north more
attractive, with longer growing seasons, and able to support
much larger populations, according to models. Though there is
much potential gain, the loss of permafrost and of ice roads
will be hugely problematic for the climate and also for many
settlements that depend on frozen foundations for buildings,
roads, railway tracks and other infrastructure. Engineering
techniques exist to deal with the problem, but they are very
expensive.
Other places that will see new or expanded cities include
Scotland, Ireland, Estonia, and elevated sites with plenty of
water, like Carcassonne in France, which is surrounded by
rivers. In the global south, as mentioned, there is far less
landmass in the high latitudes, but Patagonia, Tasmania and New
Zealand, and perhaps the newly icefree parts of the western
Antarctic coast, offer potential for cities. In Antarctica
alone, up to 17,000 square kilometres of new, icefree land is
projected to appear by the end of the century. This could offer
an opportunity for development, but I fervently hope that
Earth’s last wild continent will remain a precious nature
reserve.
Elsewhere, people will move to higher elevations, including the
Rocky Mountains in North America and the Alps in Europe. In the
US, Boulder and Denver, both above 1,600 metres, are already
attracting migrants, and Ljubljana in Slovenia is another alpine
location with a rich underground aquifer system and lush
agriculture.
People will aim for safer places, and they will be better off
moving to locations that already have good governance,
productivity and resources. Happily, there are many places where
these coincide. Some of this migration will involve rapidly
expanding existing towns and cities; in other places, such as
Russian Siberia and Greenland, entirely new cities will need to
be built.
Achieving safe settlement for hundreds of millions of migrants
could require the compulsory purchase by international consensus
of land held by current states, with compensation and a stake in
the new cities and their industries. It could require a new kind
of international citizenship. It could mean richer, safer
latitude states becoming ‘care taker states’ for poorer, more
vulnerable ones, during the crisis period of global heating
until planetary restoration. It could involve charter cities,
states within states, the extinction of some of the 200 nation
states and consolidation of the remaining few into regional
geopolitical entities. There are many alternative visions to
today’s status quo of nation states, borders and passports –
which are, after all, relatively recent.
Instituting global freedom of movement, for instance, would
boost national economies, as well as saving or improving
billions of lives. Open borders would, it’s fair to assume,
result in very large flows of people—estimations range from a
few million to more than 1 billion—and it could increase global
GDP by tens of trillions of dollars. Among the catastrophic
losses this century, we have so much potential to gain if we
open our minds to different ways of living, unsticking people
from their fixed abodes. People will move in their millions this
century, and right now we have a chance to make this upheaval
work through a planned, managed peaceful transition to a safer,
fairer world. We must try.[/quote]
We must focus on identifying and eliminating all who, if left
alive, will stop the climate refugees from entering and who will
deport them after they have entered. Everything else can be
worked out, but there will be no way to persuade rightists to
welcome climate refugees. Either the rightists die, or the
climate refugees die. There are no other options. Which
bloodlines deserve to survive the coming bottleneck caused by
global warming? Certainly not those which defend the
civilization which is to blame for creating the bottleneck in
the first place. It is not enough to merely say we support open
borders; the only people who truly support open borders are
those willing to physically exterminate all who oppose open
borders.
Successful climate refuge must be preceded by totally ruthless
climate Ahimsa.
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Re: Climate refugees
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 5, 2022, 3:42 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/famine-door-somalia-un-humanitarian-085513015.html
[quote]The UN's humanitarian chief warned Monday that
drought-ravaged Somalia was on the brink of famine for the
second time in just over a decade, and time was running out to
save lives.
"Famine is at the door and we are receiving a final warning,"
Martin Griffiths told a press conference in the Somali capital
Mogadishu.
A food and nutrition report due for release on Monday has
"concrete indications" that famine will strike the regions of
Baidoa and Burhakaba in south-central Somalia between October
and December, Griffiths said.
"I've been shocked to my core these past few days by the level
of pain and suffering we see so many Somalis enduring," said the
head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA), who began a visit to the country on Thursday.
...
The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) last month said the number
of people at risk of starvation across the Horn had increased to
22 million.
In Somalia alone, the number of people facing crisis hunger
levels is 7.8 million, or about half the population, while
around a million have fled their homes on a desperate quest for
food and water, UN agencies say.
Griffiths described scenes of heart-rending suffering during a
visit to Baidoa, describing it as the epicentre of the crisis
where he saw "children so malnourished they could barely speak"
or cry.
...
Conflict-wracked Somalia is considered one of the most
vulnerable to climate change but is particularly ill-equipped to
cope with the crisis.[/quote]
If 7.8 million are hungry, 1 million emigrating will not be
enough to alleviate the hunger of the remaining 6.8. million. It
would make more sense for 6.8 million to emigrate, then possibly
leaving enough food for the remaining 1 million.
Moreover, I am not even sure that the 1 million who "fled their
homes" have all necessarily emigrated, let alone into the EU. I
suspect many among them are merely moving to other locations
inside Somalia, which will not solve the problem.
[quote]The war in Ukraine has also sent global food and fuel
prices soaring, making aid delivery more expensive.[/quote]
There will be no aid. MIGRATE TO THE EU OR DIE!
[quote]In June, British charity Save the Children had issued an
alert that the international community was "sleepwalking towards
another catastrophic famine" in Somalia.[/quote]
The worst thing the UN etc. can do at this point is promise aid,
thereby persuading those who might otherwise have emigrated to
instead stay put and wait for the aid (which will not arrive
fast enough). Instead of promising aid, just promise to take in
anyone who shows up at EU borders!
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