On refugees: too few rich politicians in Europe understand or care about the desperation that it takes to leave your home, or that climate change is not just going to make refugees of poor non-white people.
This reflexive terror that poor people are going to swarm wealthy countries is so revealing. It shows how unsuited so many leaders are to the approaching ecological moment. The imaginations are so fearful, so small.
Climate change is going to cause some very unpredictable patterns of migration and some of those patterns may involve fleeing to countries for which politicians currently have contempt. Those politicians need to wise up.
Some of these politicians are terrified at the arrival of a few thousand refugees while their own constituents were recently drowning in their beds or escaping their homes and offices waist deep in water. The global mass migration of water is what they should fear.

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