With many governments still dragging their feet on climate action, many are also actively preparing—via militarized borders and regressive immigration policies—for one of its most dire and tragic consequences: refugees fleeing climate-driven conflict, desertification, and sea level rise.
In Montreal recently on a book tour, Tucson-based journalist Todd Miller described seeing this dysfunctional and inhumane response first hand as Latin Americans, fleeing north from a region that climate scientists describe as “Ground Zero for climate change,” come up against an increasingly militarized American border.