Comments on: Happy 4th of July https://habitablezone.com/2021/07/05/happy-4th-of-july/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:51:21 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2021/07/05/happy-4th-of-july/#comment-46947 RL Wed, 07 Jul 2021 01:50:45 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=88407#comment-46947 We are looking at a grim future for quite a while... This is primarily why I think the world is heading towards fascism. Look at how easily immigrants and refugees were exploited by fascists to gain power here and in Europe... now imagine orders of magnitude more climate refugees in far more desperation... And the 'wealthy' nations they are fleeing to will be struggling with the costs of climate change within their own borders... <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/01/heat-wave-linked-to-hundreds-of-deaths-in-pacific-northwest-canada-.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Heat waves</a> <a href="https://weather.com/forecast/regional/news/2021-01-05-southwest-drought-intensifies-dry-pattern-persists-january" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Drought</a> <a href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/12/a-look-back-at-the-horrific-2020-atlantic-hurricane-center/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">hurricanes</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/study-media-still-largely-fail-put-wildfires-climate-context" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">massive fires</a> That is what we are facing in a decade, if not sooner... and then sea-level rise will REALLY kick in... We are looking at a grim future for quite a while…
This is primarily why I think the world is heading towards fascism. Look at how easily immigrants and refugees were exploited by fascists to gain power here and in Europe… now imagine orders of magnitude more climate refugees in far more desperation…

And the ‘wealthy’ nations they are fleeing to will be struggling with the costs of climate change within their own borders…
Heat waves
Drought
hurricanes
massive fires

That is what we are facing in a decade, if not sooner… and then sea-level rise will REALLY kick in…

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