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Via Feministe:
Large swathes of Mexico are under water, people are dying and an entire country is in crisis — and the U.S. media is already bored of it. The state of Tabasco is 80 percent flooded, and they’re receiving little to no aid from the Mexican government. A refugee crisis is in full swing, and in response, the United States has pledged $300,000 to aid refugees. Three hundred thousand. Not million.
Read BfP’s full post – it’s chock-full of sad, infuriating information on the situation in Tabasco. One million Mexicans are still displaced by the floods. The comparisons to Katrina are obvious, and as BfP points out, “I guess as long as it keeps happening to people of color, we can keep pretending that global warming is the devil’s lie.”
Should also add that dangerous land use patterns driven by poor governance and the exploitation of property rights by land lords under economic conditions of the Washington Consensus means that the poorest live in the most risk prone places on Earth.
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Spot on Naadir, you are right in highlighting the affects global warming is having, of course it is going to hit the third world countries the hardest cause they don’t have the resources to deal with the aftermath. But i am suprised you missed the biggest story of all the price of 0il is about to break thro the $100 barrier, i believe we are entering the permenant energy crisis phase of the 21st Century and this will affect everyone in a far more brutal way than the environmental crisis that is unfolding. I am not one of those who think it will be like the Mad Max trilogy, but there are no easy answers to the transition from oil to an alternative, lets hope our leaders are sensible and we don’t see an all out war for the remaining supplies although it looks as though things are unfolding as Michael C. Ruppert predicted in his book Crossing the Rubicon; The Decline Of the American Empire at the end of the age of oil. For more info on this debate google Peak Oil. I believe nuclear fusion (unlimited clean energy) is our only hope but i don’t think this tech will save us in time! Oh well i can watch this mess unfold on CNN. lol
Farah Mohamed
8 Nov 07 at 8:55 pm