"Asylum seekers in #Greece ‘facing two great injustices of our time’ #Amnesty links wildfires and lack of legal migration routes to deaths of 19 people believed to be asylum seekers.

Refugees and migrants in Greece are facing off against the “two great injustices of our times”, Amnesty International has said, as it linked wildfires and scant access to legal migration routes to the deaths of 19 people believed to be asylum seekers.

As wildfires continue to rage across swathes of Greece, authorities in the country said they were working to identify the charred remains of 18 people found this week in the dense forests that straddle the country’s north-eastern border with Turkey.

Given there were no reports of missing people in the area, officials said it was possible the victims, who include two children, were asylum seekers who had entered the country irregularly. One day earlier, the body of another person believed to be an asylum seeker was found in the same area.

In recent days the fires have ripped through an area that had increasingly become a crossing point for thousands of refugees and migrants, Amnesty International said in a statement. Their arrival on EU soil had been “systematically” met with “forced returns at the border, denial of the right to seek asylum and violence”, it added.

“The 19 people killed by wildfires in northern Greece appear to be victims of two great injustices of our times,” said Adriana Tidona, a migration researcher with the organisation.

“On the one hand, catastrophic climate change … On the other hand, the lack of access to safe and legal routes for some people on the move, and the persistence of migration management policies predicated on racialised exclusion and deadly deterrence, including racist border violence.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/24/asylum-seekers-greece-wildfires-refugees-migration-climate-crisis

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #Climate #Klimakrise #Klima #Refugees #ClimateRefugees #EU #FortressEurope #Wildfires #Convergence #Colonialism

Aujourd’hui, on me demande si je peux accueillir quelqu’un qui vit dans un four (nuit dernière: 30°C dans la chambre, grosse difficulté à dormir) chez moi, où c’est bien isolé (24°C). Alors c’est chou, mais ça ouvre la discussion, moins chou, des déplacæs climatiques internes, et plus légèrement des réfugiæs climatiques. Parce que, oui, la question des réfugiæs climatiques ne concernent pas que les pauvres des Suds: les Canadians ou les Hawaïans qui fuient les feux, les Californians qui vont être sous les eaux prochainement, les Françaiz en bord de mer dont l’immeuble s’effondre sur à l’érosion, les Suisses dont la montagne s’abat sur auz à cause de la fonte du permafrost…

Bref, on est touz des #ClimateRefugees en devenir #ClimateChange

Over 35,000 evacuate British Columbian cities as forest fires intensify and a further 30,000 were under evacuation alert.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-20/british-columbia-wildfires-intensify-evacuations-over-35-000/102752484
#climate #ClimateRefugees #Bushfires #FossilFuels

It’s important—in this year that has seen #globalwarming come fully to #life—to describe accurately what’s happening on #ourplanet. And one key thing is: the number of places #humans can safely live is now shrinking. Fast. The size of the board on which we can play the great game of human #civilization is getting smaller.

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-ever-smaller-board

#CorruptRobertsCourt #CorruptPoliticians #PetroOligarchs #FarRightWinningElections
#AbolishTheElectoralCollege
#CitizensUnited #CigaretteScience #ClimateRefugees

#climate crisis #forestfires #canadawildfires #climaterefugees
In Canada, 20,000 people in a single city will have to flee the forest fires.
They are the refugees of climate change.
When will politicians around the world finally act?!
We are in the midst of a global refugee crisis caused by war and extreme weather events, caused by climate change.
It is now also hitting the western hemisphere with full force.

#NationalizeFossilFuels #ParisAligned #CigaretteScience #regulatorycapture #environmentalracism #ClimateRefugees #FarRightWinningElections

#AcceleratingKeelingCurve: The solution to our predicament: We need to stop burning #fossilfuel. The only way forward is without the most #powerful and #destructive #companies in #history committed to #profiting from #pollution.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-07-21/editorial-its-not-enough-to-be-frenemies-with-fossil-fuel-companies-we-have-to-kick-them-to-the-curb

https://open.substack.com/pub/hotglobe/p/where-is-the-navy?r=11rw36&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

#PentagonIsTheLargestEmitter: Where was the #Navy during the #mauiwildfire? Steaming toward Iran to protect #oil #tankers and shore up #petrodictorships when their (and our) #fossilfuels contribute so heavily to the mess Maui—and the world is in?

#PoliticalIntransigence #AcceleratingKeelingCurve #FarRightNightmare #ClimateRefugees #NoPlaceIsSafe

#SmokeAndMirrors by #Granholm and #DOE: Direct air capture increases carbon dioxide emissions and air pollution.

$1.2B is a #subsidy for #AcceleratingKeelingCurve so the #fossilfuel industry can continue creating #climaterefugees with fires floods and extreme heat and stoke the far right to #FoamAtTheMouth.

#TheGreatGame

Defined: #Anthropocene- the age when the annual rate of #cities burned will increase with the rising #temperature due to #human induced #globalboiling.

#PoliticalIntransigence #AcceleratingKeelingCurve #ClimateRefugees #NoPlaceIsSafe

Canada, who until May was supposed to benefit from #ClimateChange: has scorched more than 10-million hectares this summer, an area about the size of Iceland, with no end to the burning expected anytime soon.

https://www.miningweekly.com/article/canadian-wildfires-burn-a-record-25-million-acres-with-no-end-in-sight-2023-07-17

#climaterefugees #climatemitigation
#foodsecurity

It's hard to see how Europe is going to cope with tens then hundreds of millions of #ClimateRefugees - refugees that we helped to create. #ClimateEmergency #migration https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/08/mark-rutte-resigns-dutch-coalition-government-over-asylum-row

Many of those who drowned near Greece last month were escaping environmental crises in Pakistan. Across the world there is far worse to come #ClimateEmergency #Migration #ClimateRefugees https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/07/climate-crisis-migration-pakistan-greek-shipwreck

"Another challenge is whether a population could maintain its legal rights and cultural cohesion as a permanent diaspora. Galvão Teles noted that international law does not have a special legal category for #ClimateRefugees or people affected by #SeaLevelRise, so it is necessary to rely on existing agreements on #HumanRights and #refugees." #RisingSeas #ClimateChange

‘We could lose our status as a state’:what happens to a people when their land disappears #PacificIslands
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/27/we-could-lose-our-status-as-a-state-what-happens-to-a-people-when-their-land-disappears

"The U.S. government seems to be operating under the assumption that Modi’s India can sustain the country as it decouples from Chinese manufacturing. There is little reason to believe that is true."

This is also a region that will be hammered first by the #climatecatastrophe . Northern #Europe must be ready to welcome many #ClimateRefugees from there.

#china #india #us #newcoldwar

#House #climaterefugees too because #Sprawl is combustible and drowning.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-18/state-farm-allstate-wildfire-flood-insurance-california-climate-change-housing-rebuild

“Back home in Africa, there are many #climaterefugees, but I never thought I would become one in Canada," said Mr. Mabiala, 42, who arrived in Canada in 2018.

With three months left in Canada’s wildfire season, blazes have already scorched more than 10 times the acres of land burned by this time last year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/world/canada/quebec-canada-wildfires-locations.html

#KeepItInTheGround
#CAWildfires

@wigbert The #ClimateRefugees are coming. Here in the states, the @GOP loathes refugees and #immigrants of all stripes. I wonder how soon there will be terrible clashes?

#ClimateChange #ClimateRevolution

@ProPublica

"Quantifying the human cost of global warming" by Lenton et al. 2023.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01132-6

"We show that climate change has already put ~9% of people (>600 million) outside this niche. By end-of-century (2080–2100), current policies leading to around 2.7 °C global warming could leave one-third (22–39%) of people outside the niche. Reducing global warming from 2.7 to 1.5 °C results in a ~5-fold decrease in the population exposed to unprecedented heat (mean annual temperature ≥29 °C)."

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateRefugees

Quantifying the injustice – see this graph:

@PadreWil @ProPublica

We aren't done, particularly US citizens:

"American per capita emissions are more than twice those of Europeans, who still live a prosperous and modern existence, the authors point out, so there is ample room for comfortable change short of substantial sacrifice. “The idea that you need the level of wasteful consumption ... that happens on average in the U.S. to be part of a happy, flourishing, rich, democratic society is obviously nonsense,”"

And even Europeans can reduce their emissions substantially without sacrificing quality of life.

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateRefugees

Just published:
"Human migration on a heating planet: A scoping review"
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000214

#climigration #climaterefugees #climatemigrants #environmentalrefugees #environmentalmigrants #ClimateChange #ClimateMigration #HeatWave #HeatWaves