If you think the issue of maybe a few thousand or even a few hundred migrants at our southern
border is a major problem, then I've got some really bad news for you.
That migrant caravan that came up from Guatemala and Honduras and trekked thousands of miles
up to our border, a large part of the reason those people had to flee their current countries
was because of climate change.
A new report published in common dreams and you can find a link to it in the description
of this video talks about the fact that because of climate change, refugees from other countries
and a couple million actually from the Central America region are being displaced because
of things like droughts, crop failures, storms and other climate related ills.
And here's the kicker.
While we're all freaking out about the caravan, or at least the Republicans are the United
States for many years, for decades was the biggest polluter on the planet and we knew
climate change existed.
We just had politicians that refuse to believe that or refuse to do anything about it.
So we let the problem get worse.
We let the situation, the circumstances in these other countries closer to the equator,
we let it get this way and then when we suddenly have to deal with the repercussions of that,
we shut down our borders, we turn it off, we deny them asylum for fleeing the conditions
which we, the United States helped to create, not just through climate change, but from
our destabilization efforts in south and Central America.
You know the sanctions we put on these countries.
We're the reason things suck so bad down there and it's not just south and Central America.
It's happening in Africa.
It's happening in Asia.
Pretty soon it's going to be happening in Europe all over the world.
This problem of climate refugees is going to get worse between the years 2008 and 2015.
There were 22 and a half million climate refugees throughout the world.
Twenty two and a half million people displaced because of climate change.
Between '08 and 2015, uh, last year alone we had four and a half million people displaced
in the Americas.
Four and a half million in the Americas.
62,000 people a day on average across the planet are being displaced because of climate
change, and again, we spent years as the United States as the top polluter on the planet.
We knew we needed to change, we knew we needed to do something.
Hell, we know that today, but we're not yet.
We've got a climate change denying president.
We've got a coal running the EPA and we've got Republicans in charge of the Senate who
still tell us that the existence of snow disproves global warming.
Well disprove the people at the border disproved the four and a half million people in the
Americas who were displaced last year because of climate change.
Show me that those aren't real because I guarantee you you're not gonna find a climate denier
among that bunch.
They understand what's happening because they live it here in the United States, a little
bit north of the equator further north and those folks were.
We haven't necessarily seen the horrid consequences of climate change just yet.
Oh, we've seen some bad things.
We've seen a lot of it storms and fires and floods and droughts and crop failures, but
nowhere near to the extremes that the people closer to the border are experiencing, but
it won't be long before those problems make their way to our borders, make their way to
our fields and our farms and our forests.
The effects of climate change.
They are happening in the United States, but we're about to start experiencing some of
the worst effects of it, the same effects that we've been ignoring around the planet
for years and now that these people are trying to flee those areas go to a place that's actually
habitable.
We're shutting down our borders, locking out asylum seekers and saying, sorry, I know we
created these massive humanitarian problems.
We just don't care enough to do anything about it.
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