Global Climate Wall

[Nevilledog]

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David Roberts
@drvolts
"This report finds that the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases are spending, on average, 2.3 times as much on arming their borders as they are on climate finance."

Global Climate Wall
tni.org
10:13 AM · Oct 27, 2021

https://www.tni.org/en/publication/global-climate-wall

Executive summary

The world’s wealthiest countries have chosen how they approach global climate action – by militarising their borders. As this report clearly shows, these countries – which are historically the most responsible for the climate crisis – spend more on arming their borders to keep migrants out than on tackling the crisis that forces people from their homes in the first place.

This is a global trend, but seven countries in particular – responsible for 48% of the world’s historic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – collectively spent at least twice as much on border and immigration enforcement (more than $33.1 billion) as on climate finance ($14.4 billion) between 2013 and 2018.

These countries have built a ‘Climate Wall’ to keep out the consequences of climate change, in which the bricks come from two distinct but related dynamics: first, a failure to provide the promised climate finance that could help countries mitigate and adapt to climate change; and second, a militarised response to migration that expands border and surveillance infrastructure. This provides booming profits for a border security industry but untold suffering for refugees and migrants who make increasingly dangerous – and frequently deadly – journeys to seek safety in a climate-changed world.

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[WarGamer]

1. China is the world's FASTEST growing CO2 producer.

Just a couple years ago they emitted UNDER 100% more than the USA...

Now China is producing WELL OVER 100% more than the USA and growing fast.

Something about building new coal fired power plants on a weekly basis...

[Claire Oh Nette]

2. Climate Migration is already happening

People live where they *can* live. Not everyone is cut out for Arctic winters, nor is everyone eager to bake in the heat of the Outback.

People also need to be able to feed themselves. When their land will no longer produce anything, then people will not have an economy. As the hot places get hotter, and the wet places get wetter, and coastlines disappear, and swaths of forest and chaparral burn, and people begin to migrate, those walls will become meaningless. People are migratory. They'll migrate. Climate change will drive migration and immigration far more than employers hiring the undocumented ever did.

Wait until the water wars begin, if they haven't already.