MBridegam, 5 months ago

@loshmi

It has and we are.

For example, the worsened political/social climate in northeastern California after the 2018 "Camp Fire" destroyed the town of Paradise. That Paradise/Chico area was never kind or fair to poor people but it has become conspicuously nastier in response to the continued presence of so many displaced local residents who have not recovered conventional housing.

See e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/09/trauma-fear-homelessness-paradise-camp-fire-migrants-climate-change

This vindictive amicus brief is an ugly symptom: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-175/288850/20231103180934467_Amicus%20Brief%20City%20of%20Chico.pdf

loshmi, 5 months ago

@MBridegam Thank you, that is a good example!

There will be 80% public support for a policy, but governments won’t do it. That is our present and future.

BillySmith, 5 months ago

@loshmi @MBridegam

In Peter Watts's Rifters trilogy, the second book, Maelstrom, has a grim prediction of how the climate refugees will be treated.

https://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm

Don't read any of his stuff when you are depressed... :D

"When I feel my will to live getting too strong, I pick up a Peter Watts book" - James Nicoll

loshmi, 5 months ago

@BillySmith @MBridegam I love his writing, thank you for the link! Sadly I don’t think we need fiction to see how climate refugees are being treated :( The Mediterranean is a blue grave.