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 ...
calendar.prattlibrary.org/.../writers_live_john_r_wennersten_and_denise_robbins_risi...
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