Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Time Magazine, President Trump’s Climate Change Policies are helping to create the border crisis.
The Real Culprit Behind Trump’s Border Emergency? Climate Change
By JUSTIN WORLAND
2:15 PM ESTPresident Donald Trump is expected to convene a new panel that will likely undermine the expert consensus that climate change threatens national security.
But experts say that move is at odds with his recent declaration of a national emergency at the U.S. border, where thousands of the Central American migrants have arrived after fleeing the effects of climate change.
“Yeah, they’re economic migrants, but they’re really climate refugees,” says Robert Albro, a researcher American University who has studied the effects of climate change in Latin America. But “the politics around this is so toxic that it’s unlikely to have any kind of productive forward motion in the foreseeable future.”
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“They usually don’t go after the first drought,” says Stephanie Leutert, director of the Mexico Security Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin. “But when the drought comes back and they don’t have many any more savings, they have do something.”
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The notion that climate change could constitute a national emergency has won over many Democrats eager for ways to implement climate policy come 2020. For that reason, many Republicans have remained skeptical of Trump’s emergency declaration. “Today’s national emergency is border security,” said Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican. “But a future president may use this exact same tactic to impose the Green New Deal.”
Indeed, future Democrats may point to the migrant crisis to justify it.
Read more: http://time.com/5535086/trump-climate-change-national-emergency/
Even if the Latin American illegal immigrants pouring into the USA are climate refugees, how would building more wind turbines or solar panels help improve the situation?
People who see everything through the lens of climate change often seem so keen to grasp at tenuous policy “solutions” which promote their agenda, they’re happy to ignore real solutions which would provide far more immediate relief.
Surely a more immediate solution would be to improve border security, to stop dangerous criminals from sneaking into the country disguised as refugees, then help any countries afflicted by worsening droughts by providing food relief and improved water infrastructure.
Illegal immigration is a significant issue for US citizens and for the immigrants themselves. Seeing their plight as an opportunity to push the green agenda, while ignoring policy options which would provide immediate benefits, seems a little heartless.
Update (EW): Included the quote about droughts triggering the migrations
‘The Real Culprit Behind Trump’s Border Emergency? Climate Change’
Rofl. For good. Doesn’t pass the smell test. Here’s a spoon for you, it’s yours.
The best weapon against all of these “Climate Refugees” from both Africa and South America is called a Condom.
Then and only then should we use the World Bank to start digging for coal and then build the power stations.
MJE
Sorry buddy, but that’s both mean and imprecise. Most South America has already a fertility rate near two, and many refugees/aliens/immigrants from Africa that end up in Europe or the USA are from countries which have a decent fertility rate.
The places which suffer from mass emigration are more likely suffering from war, lack of hope for better future, nepotism, organized crime, and paternal family control. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria as good examples. Many of these people don’t have any idea what they are doing when they pay €2,000 for a human trafficker who then leaves them to die in a sinking boat or similar.
They are refugees from socialism.
The Romans tried what we would call socialism in their collapse phase. It didn’t work. In fact it made things worse. Well, worse for the people. Better for the government.
The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter – pdf. The good stuff starts in Chapter 4.
https://wtf.tw/ref/tainter.pdf
https://youtu.be/GzuviYRse3E – about 3 minutes
The Collapse of Complex Societies – a Review
http://classicalvalues.com/2019/02/the-collapse-of-complex-societies/
Sorry, the Roman Empire didn’t collapse cause of “socialist reforms”.
But sure in the wake of murdering the “socialist reformer Gracchi Brothers”.
https://www.google.com/search?q=socialist+reformer+brothers+roman+empire&oq=socialist+reformer+brothers+roman+empire&aqs=chrome.
Your time frame is way off. The emporers Diocletian and Constantine in the 4th century A.D. instituted a government takeover of businesses, essentially socialism, which led to the decline of the Empire. The Roman Empire reached its height in the 2nd century during a period of free trade and low taxes. The brothers Gracchi lived 3 centuries earlier and a lot of their reforms were instituted by Julius Caesar
Not to mention – doing away with the “socialist reformer Gracchi Brothers” was the entrance for Christianity “love thy brother like thyself”
overwhelming “public success story”
conquering the whole of nowadays “Europe”.
Despite the fact that many immigrants have a larger “carbon” footprint here than where they come from, the Sierra Club is OK with large scale immigration.
https://www.colorlines.com/articles/how-sierra-club-learned-love-immigration
stop dangerous criminals from sneaking into the country disguised as refugees, then help any countries afflicted by worsening droughts by providing food relief and improved water infrastructure. –>
stop dangerous criminals from sneaking into the country disguised as refugees, -than- help any countries afflicted by worsening droughts by providing food relief and improved water infrastructure.
Regards –
“Illegal immigration is a significant issue for US citizens and for the immigrants themselves. Seeing their plight as an opportunity to push the green agenda, while ignoring policy options which would provide immediate benefits, seems a little heartless.”
And absolutely counterproductive.
Illegal immigrants are
climate refugeesspace aliens. There, fixed.The climate that creates so many refugees is far more from Islam than fromCO2.
Climate refugees exist. A crescent number of retired families escape brutal cold winters by relocating further south where Mediterranean climate is more clement and comes with less heating bills.
Rumors are that the increasing number of HR cargo are mostly those who elect to remain there until their final journey home.
Time magazine has removed logic and reason from their articles and are hence on the side of idiot chaos. Money that is wasted is a tragedy.
What is the return on investment $ spent on green scams vs climate change stopped?
Worst how much poverty in the world has there been reduced by spending on green scams.
Illegal immigration is a very expensive and ineffective means to help the 62 million people in South America that live in extreme poverty.
https://www.cepal.org/en/pressreleases/poverty-latin-america-remained-steady-2017-extreme-poverty-increased-highest-level
In 2017, the number of people living in poverty reached 184 million (30.2% of the population), of whom 62 million live in extreme poverty (10.2% of the population, the highest percentage since 2008), according to the report, Social Panorama of Latin America 2018, presented this Tuesday by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization, at a press conference held in Santiago, Chile.
Refugee or immigrant.
Neither gives you the right to just go by the thousands into someone else’s country.
But but the IPCC in AR5 that Warm air can contain more water. This means that we can expect heavier rain in a warmer climate.
In Canada we don’t expect warmer weather because our Prime Minister, bless his cotton socks, BHCS, wants to introduce a carbon tax to stop it. Why he wants to keep Canada cold is beyond me.
MAKE CANADA WARM AGAIN!
They’re refugees from the symptoms of the system that Time espouses — Socialism.
Why do articles that blame climate change never spell out how the climate has changed? It appears that ‘climate change’ is the only kind of ‘change’ that does not require anything too be different.
While the use of some form of birth control may upset those who still believe in the Bibles, both of them. The simple facts are that the Rev. Maths was right. “When a species exceeds its food supply it dies”.
Today of course with the TV shots of a little girl with a swollen belly, we the once rich “West” are expected to provide aid. But the more aid we provide the more people will breed.
And the more will try for a home in the rich Western countries where by being on welfare they are far better off than back where they came from.
MJE
And global warming is all about the science, not the politics?
The Warmistas are evil followers of the evil Canadian Maurice Strong. They are evil money grubbing crony capitalists or evil power hungry ideologues. Criminally dishonest all.
[Irate mode off]
Yes its ironical that the whole of the Green issue is a mix of greedy Capitalists and the top people who dream of a Communist world, Mark two.
The Politicians in their drive for a vote anywhere are of course the major problem,. Here in Australia we have the State of Victoria who despite the brown out in the electrical power a fee w weeks ago, are a green state.
So both the Liberal (Conservative) party, and the Labour have to say nice things to the Victorians, but then they go North to Queensland and have to say nice things to the people who want coal mining.
Its complicated even further in that Queensland who has a Labour Government, with the Premier saying nice things about a proposed coal mini, Adani, but the vice Premier being violently against that development.
Such is life in energy rich Australia, but as we have to show a good example to the rest of the world, despite our 1 % emissions, we have the dearest electricity.
MJE
There is no longer any world problem that hasn’t been blamed on climate change. The answer to any problem is climate change, and the solution is always socialism. Of course the media don’t require any data or any correlation whatsoever, just an “expert” saying that “more of X is consistent with what is predicted due to climate change”. Critical reasoning skills are dead.