Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Al Jazeera author Jason Hickel, the West is dragging its feet on climate action because national borders shield us from the consequences of our selfish climate sins.
To stop climate change, we need to open borders
By tearing down the walls that separate the causes and consequences of climate change we can force constructive action.
Jason Hickel
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This is a puzzle. Why are we so willing to gamble thus with the fate of human civilization, with 95 percent certainty of catastrophe? Is it that we’re in denial? Are we just repressing a reality that’s too traumatic to confront? Yes, probably. But it’s also something much simpler: a geography problem.
The great irony of global warming is that its causes and consequences are inversely distributed. The rich nations of the global North are responsible for 70 percent of historical CO2 emissions, but they bear only about 18 percent of the total costs. It’s the South that takes the hit: according to the Climate Vulnerability Monitor, the global South loses nearly $600bn each year due to drought, floods, landslides, storms and wildfires. As climate change worsens, their losses will reach a staggering $1 trillion per year by 2030.
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The solution is simple, at least conceptually: open the borders. By tearing down the walls that separate the causes and consequences of climate change we can force a more honest reckoning with reality. Once the victims of climate change have the right to seek refuge in Europe and North America, it will obliterate the moral hazard of global warming. As rich nations finally start to feel the heat, so to speak, you can bet they’ll act fast, doing everything in their power to ensure that people’s home regions remain livable. Even if it means pushing for a new, more ecological, economic model.
This might seem unrealistic at a time of rising anti-immigrant sentiment. But either we do it now, finding orderly ways to integrate climate refugees and allowing ourselves to be spurred to action by the suffering we’re forced to confront, or down the road, we’re going to face a refugee crisis more severe, violent and destabilising than anything we can imagine. We have a choice.
Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/stop-climate-change-open-borders-180223144922968.html
I guess we should thank Jason for helping us understand the thinking behind green demands for open borders. Jason and his fellow climate warriors demand open borders because they want to punish us.
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I’ll move to Wakanda.
LOL. Yes, that is the solution — just decorate the borders with a couple of sign posts “U-turn to Wakanda 20 meters ahead.”
Wauconda is much nicer than Wakanda. Good cheeseburgers, too.
Shameless and transparent attempt to weaken the non-Islamic world. And yet Al Jazeera and the rest of the middle east happily continue to sell the evil west the oil, which of course is what funds Al Jazeera in the first place.
Hickel is a bit disingenuous there. While the NH may be responsible for 70% of emissions (I have no idea), the developing world is actually responsible for more than 1/2 of cumulative emissions; and rapidly pulling ahead.
By demarcating it as North/south. and calling it RICH, he is lumping China and India with the so called rich.
So, China and India are not developing countries?
China is according to the UN and the only reason China signed on to the Paris agreement…. free money (that they’ve been stiffed on according to them). Being the world’s #2 economy (and probably #1 in the future) doesn’t make China developed?
Good Luck “punishing” China by flooding their borders with “climate refugees”. And FYI …
Hint: China will not provide lots of FREE STUFF to said refugees as say … Sweden, and England do.
China is producing more CO2 per person then the EU now…
Blowed if I know what this has to do with climate. Here in the UK the pictures of refugees/migrants I see on TV show a majority of healthy young men. I see this as a controlled invasion.
“Richard111 February 24, 2018 at 12:01 am”
And they all seem to have mobile phones too.
And lots of explosives in their backpacks. Since we have let in something with us. After Merkel Gold, I would rather say cat’s gold.
He seems to be suggesting that the global north is sufficiently racist that it would do anything
to stop the “threat’ of increasing migrants. Which is probably true which is a fairly sad state of
affairs.
You obviously meant that a combination of Vatermord and rampant xenophilia has not yet *quite* destroyed the tolerance that Western countries still keep in high value. But if you keep telling China leads and that the religion of peace is better than anything, I guess finally you will notice that the Atlas has shrugged and weaklings in Western countries no longer have affordable energy nor police that’d care. After all, a people that wants an anarchy may be unlucky and get what it wanted.
For years and years, the West is now providing development aid and sending engineers, allowing foreign students to go to their universities. Now it has to be over. Some peoples and states simply do not develop, at most in the amount of the population. Take an example of Germany or Vietnam / South Korea. Crushed by the war was rebuilt within a few decades and people are doing relatively well. At a certain geographic level, that’s unthinkable. If these states are hit by a catastrophe, they will do so for decades or even hundreds of
years. No sign of initiative. Therefore, now must be over. And at least in Central / Eastern Europe, the number of people who think so are increasing.
I don’t know about you, but when I think about Illegal Aliens I think of all races as being included, since every race, creed and color of person on Earth tries to enter the U.S. illegally.
So it’s not racist to reject all races, and that’s what we are doing. We are rejecting people of all races who don’t add a benefit to the United States when they come and welcoming people from all races that do. Or, at least, that’s the way it’s going to be when Trump is done. 🙂
No racists here. We reject all illegal aliens of all races equally. Nothing personal.
“He seems to be suggesting “…that if these countries weren’t backward sh1tholes….they would be contributing as much to global warming as the so called developed countries
Once again, the socialist defines racism as whites not doing what minorities tell them to do.
It really is sad how socialists substitute emotion for thought.
Emotion is the propagandist’s best friend. It clouds facts behind a veil of feelings.
Emotions are instinctively what drives the thinking of children and simple folks who have undisciplined minds.
It’s not emotion itself, I don’t believe . . it’s reacting to what appears in one’s mind, as if real. For instance, I can read an exiting story that causes all sorts of emotions to be stimulated, but if I don’t treat the images that come into my mind as if real, the emotions have very little effect on anything in reality-land. It’s the confusion/conflation between the imagined and the observed that triggers the reactions we tend to blame emotion itself for, it seems to me. And that’s why we see so many attempts to convince people that their feelings themselves are some sort of real-world events that they ought to take ever so seriously . . says I ; )
John; that’s the way the law is written too. It’s the offence in the receiver that is at stake, not the giver. The giver becomes embroiled in what he said and how that could be interpreted. But the law takes the side of the offence received/perceived.
Well, Greg, that’s not how our (US) Constitution instructs the “law” to take sides . . we have freedom of speech, not freedom from being offended by what someone else speaks. The rest of the world seems to me to be languishing in an immature state, legally speaking, which allows the propagandist’s Pop spoke of above to exploit all manner of phantom injury . .
There used to be a “reasonable person” standard in the law. That is how would a reasonable person interpret such a statement.
Unfortunately, the new standard seems to be, how would the most sensitive buttercup take such a statement. If it offends anyone, you are guilty and must be punished.
This is a new Trojan Horse Cladding for increased invasion by fit young men styled ‘refugee’ only 20% of whom are Syrian, as well as a plea for yet more money with which to buy arms. This has nothing to do with CO2 or Climate. It is all to do with Hijara and Jihad, Dawa and Taqqiya.
Duh!
Excerpt from the article:
“Why are we so willing to gamble thus with the fate of human civilization, with 95 percent certainty of catastrophe?”
False nonsense by Al Jazeera author Jason Hickel.
The hypothesis of “catastrophic manmade global warming” is already disproved by actual earth-scale data since ~1940, where atmospheric CO2 has increased while temperature has gone down, up and sideways.
The upper-bound estimate of Transient Climate Sensitivity of ~1C/(2xCO2) by Christy and McNider (2017) is highly credible for the satellite period from ~1979 to mid-2017. This maximum climate sensitivity is so low that there is NO credible global warming crisis.
https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/2017_christy_mcnider-1.pdf
The hypothesis of “catastrophic man-made climate change” is so vague it is unscientific – it is the hypo that increasing atmospheric CO2 causes everything – warmer, colder, wetter, drier, windier, etc., etc. It falsely alleges that CO2 is the “miracle molecule” that can cause everything that frightens the chronically fearful. In summary, it is utter drivel.
Wow, only 1 out of twenty chance. I’ll take another beer and start memorizing hadiths.
>> Wow, only 1 out of twenty chance. I’ll take another beer and start memorizing hadiths.
No need to memorize them. You will understand why once you start reading them. After all what is the point of memorizing when the text says, several times, that you should be killed?
I wonder what chances Al Gorzeera posts of a Muslim coup of the west.
I would say 100%. The real question is when is coup going to happen, and where?
I’ll hazard a guess and say France will be first, and in less than 40 years.
I’m a simple person, given to understand such matters in even more simple terms.
IF the politicians/greens own a house, do they leave their doors and windows unlocked, each and every time they are not in the house?
For if they lock their windows and doors, was it to prevent unwanted and uninvited people from entering.
Surely, even those that ARE invited, do so with the rules of the house being respected AND followed.
Anyone entering uninvited would soon have the local law enforcement being called upon to eject and or, arrest said people.
How is a country any different?
You are welcome to a country, if invited, and when here, then abide by the rules laid out and followed (in the most part) by those already living there.
Please, have I missed something?
Yes, DBH, you have missed something. You have missed the fact that common sense – which is what you are introducing into the debate – is no longer allowed in liberal policy making. Common sense is, by and large, an approach taken by the right and must therefore not be allowed into left-wing ‘green’ platforms, particularly when it highlights the poverty of thought displayed in articles by Jason Nickel and his ilk.
Reading Hickel’s piece I am almost speechless at the lack of intelligent thought, reasoning, honesty and objectivity. It is totally incoherent from start to finish. We must hope that natural selection will gradually reduce the numbers of illogical fundamentalists in our midst. As I have observed before, there is no cure for stupid.
Limousine Liberals are usually the one’s with the highest fences around their estates.
DBH – apparently, according to the do-gooders, you are quite entitled to lock your own doors but everyone else should allow all and sundry to occupy THEIR houses so that you can show how kind-hearted you are.
Empirical data through Oxygen Isotopes Ratios and from other historical data clearly show we have been much warmer between 3 million and 6 mlllion years alone, thus making the last twenty five years put in perspective. Thus the AGW camp are looking more and more isolated and the very cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere this winter is now challenging the usual claims about the climate.
In fact a lot of the claims of the last 25 years are under scrutiny.
Throw in historical data such as 4,500 ppm of CO2 when Volcanoes kick started Planet Earth 500 million years ago then the “warmers” are calming down.
We now know that Sun Cycle 25 is beginning to have an effect and once the ocean currents move colder water around the planet AGW will be a worrying but huge embarrassment for the climate elite.
I can understand Al Jezzera jumping on the bandwagon but their real issues have to be with the ongoing wars in the Middle East and the fact that around the world as many as 1.5 billion people are under-nurished and have little or no proper education.
Presumably those claiming climate damage will want to renounce that mainly western industrial revolution that has brought us to this point??
A much healthier wealthier and better educated population enjoying a life style that previously only monarchs and the fabulously rich could enjoy.
They would also want to renounce the by products of that lifestyle which has brought forward great music, great art, great literature, the rule of law the English language, democracy, advanced medicine.
What cruel and in human people we are to inflict these advances on others, who would much rather live in poverty and die of some terrible disease at the age of 30
There are two sides to any balance sheet but unfortunately the alarmists only ever look at the negative side
tonyb
This is just Muslim Brotherhood civilization jihad – overthrow western civilization by infiltrating and co-opting it. Al Jazeera is the state-run media of Qatar, which is majority Muslim Brotherhood.
And past employer of Jeremy Corbyn (a.k.a Czech agent COB allegedly) leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition and Privy Councillor (strange times indeed).
“the global South loses nearly $600bn each year due to drought, floods, landslides, storms and wildfires. As climate change worsens, their losses will reach a staggering $1 trillion per year by 2030.”
Of course, needless to say,global warmimg has had nothing to do with these events.
They always act as if there were no flood, droughts, storms, or wildfires before recent times. The fact is, extreme weather events have not gotten worse. So either there has been no climate change, or climate change does not cause more extreme weather events to occur. When you start from a faulty premise, your conclusion will be faulty, as well.
Why if global warming exists did they need to switch sell the failed product wit a new name? why is climate change the one trial where those pre tested to find the case proven allowed to be on the jury let alone the only prosecution, defence, jury and judge? That is what peer review actually means.
Sure. As long as the West gets to bill “the South” for the beneficial value of all its inventions — including life-saving medicines and medical technologies — that it has lavished on the world.
If CAGW leads to a reduction in the number of gold vinyl wrapped Lamborghinis tearing round central London that will be one benefit at least. Fracking is more likely to bring this about, thank God for American ingenuity.
I’m lost here. Major cause for CO2 increase (yeah I know, just humor them) is simply too many people and too much increase in the number of people. We are talking about countries with birth rates much higher than 2, which happen to be always in countries who can’t feed themselves or can barely feed themselves and which have major issues on healthcare, but for some reason we help them. And they refuse birth control so they breed a lot.
Having them migrate to over here will only increase the population pressure as that makes room for more in the area’s where they leave. Migration is the worst of solutions.
If you really want to lower CO2 due to humans then instead those that have already come should be sent back, none should be allowed to enter and of course no more aid to those countries… Is that what people want?
Or they simply will have to learn to control their population, no more aid or migration until they do so.
“Migration is the worst of solutions.” Blame it on whatever suits your cause, but here’s why it will never work:
Apart from possibly ‘storms’, which we all know are nowadays simply what people a generation would called a ‘stiff breeze’ – all those things are direct actual manifestation of soil erosion.
Those people have ‘shat in their own nest’
Of course, Political Correctness and the fear of being accused of Racism prevents anyone from actually telling them straight out.
The West is not blameless.
We gave them the ‘gun and ammo’ and they are now likely to shoot us with it. More so since we also gave them sugar, alcohol and various other recreational and brain-numbing shyte.
Such things switch off coherent thought and destroy memory – placing each individual into a magical thought bubble that says ‘West is rich. Want want. Gimme gimme’
And why not, after we do keep proclaiming how rich and intelligent we are so why shouldn’t they have a slice of the action.
In fact, we are now sooooo rich and intelligent we don’t even need to make babies anymore.
The ‘gun’ we gave them was: Climate Science
Was what I was just reading in the book 1927 by Bill Bryson fiction about the floods then? If it is true then climate change is responsible for improving the climate not making storms and floods worse as those were a whole order of magnitude bigger than our recent catastrophes.
tiem to hae an outside review of climate science as peer review cannot be considered a rational system when all the reviewers have been tested as believing in man mad climate change and have stated the science is beyond question but outsiders have pages long list of questions about the competence of the scientists.
Anyone that doubts that the CAGW movement is nothing more than a neo-Marxist Trojan horse should read this article.
Let’s think about this. An academic for the University of London writes this slobbering article. And, it’s published by who? Al Jazeera. And, what is Al Jazeera? Gosh, it’s the Mainstream Media of the Middle East, founded by a prince, or sheikh, or whatever, of Qatar. Qatar is one of the fabulously rich oil states of the Persian Gulf.
Does one see something here that this slobbering, academic dufus from London doesn’t? We all know most of the immigration is really coming from the Middle East, and the major share due to the Syrian civil war. And, that all started with the revolutions across the Middle East that were named (probably by an international public relations firm) the ‘Arab Spring’. Who got the ball rolling on the Arab Spring? Qatar, of course, of course.
And this idiotic, slobbering, dufus professor of stupidity is helping Qatar along with this mendacity while at the same time firmly believing that he’s a good person and on a plain higher than us non-academics.
I read some place online that in Sicily, the ‘migrant’ problem is so bad, the local police have turned to Cosa Nostra for help dealing with it, because the ‘migrants’ are trashing the island. That was a year or so ago, don’t know if it’s still going on.
If Mr. Hickel can show that he puts his money where his mouth is, I’d pay more attention, but I’m sure that all that finger wagging and pointing is mostly air. The preachy ‘holier than thou’ stuff is hogwash, full of twaddle and unsupported nonsense, and we all know it. Didn’t Algore the Colossal Bore start up Al Jazeera a while back?
The situation in Europe is deteriorating, and Europe’s politicians are oblivious.
They’re not oblivious – they’re complicit.
From the article: “Once the victims of climate change have the right to seek refuge in Europe and North America, it will obliterate the moral hazard of global warming.”
They should seek refuge in Russia and China and Southeast Asia and India and South America. Russia has lots of room and will be a tropical paradise when the Earth overheats.
The Inn is full in the United States and Europe. We’ve done our part. Including stopping the Islamic Terror Army from creating more refugees.
And then, of course, there is the completely different subject of whether humans cause the climate to change, which causes climate change refugees. As usual, there is no evidence for either.
Yes, but the problem is that only the countries in North America and Europe give the migrants welfare benefits. That’s what this all about. It has nothing to do with climate change.
The US and other countries have bent over backwards to help, but nothing is ever enough, and no thanks or appreciation is ever given for immense resources spent and tremendous burdens incurred for trying to help others.
Open Borders and Socialism have one thing in common: They both bring us all to the lowest common denominator as quickly as possible, and ensuring that the former ‘haves’ will no longer be possible to assist the have nots because now everyone is in the crapper together. Bad idea Al Jeezera, and you should know better.
Two things in common. ‘Open Borders’ brings in new voters who vote socialist to get ‘free stuff’.
It really takes a high level of cognitive dissonance or total ignorance to buy into this kind of crap. The places those masses are flocking away from were SHs long before the terms “climate change” or AGW were a part of everyday vernacular.
Pic looks like the Mexican/US border going toward the US. Or the US/Canadian border going toward Canada.
Wow!!!!!!! Progressives can use Climate Change for any thing .
Next thing you know is that fixing C.C. can cure Cancer and truly make the Muslims LOVE us.
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