As the climate crisis intensifies, more and more people around the world will be forced to flee their homes. By 2050, climate change and extreme weather could force more than 200 million people to migrate.
Building the just world we need means we must fight for policies that support people who are most impacted by the climate crisis. We can’t claim to fight for climate justice if we turn away climate refugees after the storms are over and the droughts have ended — but the damage remains.
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Headlines have been filled with news of US abuses of Central American migrants and refugees at the southern border. 350 Justice & Equity Manager Natalia Cardona explains the roots of this crisis in US military, economic and climate policy.
by Thanu Yakupitiyage, 350.org U.S. Communications Manager
65.6 million. That is the number of refugees and internally displaced people in the world today, fleeing due to persecution, conflict, violence, environmental disasters, and human rights violations.
It isn’t enough that in Trump’s first six months in office he has rolled back environmental protections and upended climate progress, or attempted to put in place a Muslim ban and give immigration enforcement agents free reign to deport and detain immigrants — now he’s suggesting putting solar panels on his heinous border wall as a means to pay for it?