Yes, we can!
We call it “the Republican Party”.
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It’s nothing that a few nukes exploded in the region, killing millions; followed by everyone’s particular dream, End Times scenario that occurs in the region, killing many, many millions more, wouldn’t fix, right? It reduces the population size to fit the new resources reality, and, of course, our messianic vision is the true one, so the “good guys” [of someone’s side] must win and teach the New Edenic world to sing.
What? Me Worry?
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North America’s time remaining before truly massive waves of life-seeking refugees arrive should be spent finding more effective ways to create, conserve and distribute fresh water for drinking and irrigation; then build that infrastructure with all the urgency and resources that we once put into WW2’s Manhattan Project.
We are at war with this self-evident and non-negotiable truth: no fresh water = no food = no life! That simple equation is the acute enemy we face, not Syrian refugees, Daesh, RWNJs, “liberals”, 0.001&ers, Kochs, religionists, non-religionists, Mexicans, fossil fuels, general climate change, etc. Accommodation can be made with each and every one of them, and life would go on in some fashion. But if animals and plants don’t drink, they die; and in the case of the world’s most clever and deadly animal, we humans will go wherever and do whatever it takes to go on living.
North America’s Great Lakes is the world’s largest single source of fresh water. To date, the continent’s current population of <400 million has not depleted it, despite the prodigious runoff via the St. Lawrence River into the Atlantic. In the next 20-30 years, 1 billion (maybe more) migratory humans will come to drink, eat and stay here. All of Wayne’s guns and all of Trump’s men won’t put our borders back again! However, the massive civil engineering and public works program necessary to make North America decently habitable for upwards of 2 billion people, if started now, may bend our common borders, but not break them; may bend our limits of civil tolerance, but not break them either.
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Thank you thank you. This needs to be said much more often. Power is the problem, not religion. Trouble with climate change is it’s great implacable relentless power, and people are going to go mad as it rips away the basis of their lives, as we’ve already seen in Syria.
The lesson learned from Syria and Iraq seems to be that when a stable social structure suddenly blows up, apocalyptic death cults like ISIS will find room to operate in the resulting vacuum.
Whether it is climate change or, say, hard-right neocons like those in the Bush administration that destabilize societies is almost an immaterial matter.
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