Storming the wall
Subtitle: climate change, migration, and homeland security
By: Todd Miller
Series: Open Media Series; Open Media book
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780872867154
Subjects: Climatic changes; Government policy; National security; Social aspects; Environmental aspects; Environmental refugees; Border security; Global environmental change; Emigration and immigration
Description: "According to U.S. military planners, climate change now poses the #1 national security threat to the United States, even before terrorism. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre reports that a person is four times more likely to be forced to move due to environmental disaster than by war, and in 2015 alone, 19.2 million people were displaced worldwide by environmental disasters. Droughts, fires, and floods are driving ever-larger numbers of people to cross national borders, and the problem is not just the vast numbers of people on the move, but also the legions of highly militarized border armies being deployed to stop them. In fast-paced prose, Todd Miller travels to hot spots in the United States and around the globe to investigate how environmental crisis is creating millions of climate refugees who are challenging the developed world's borders and resources. Miller explores how a sense of threat in the United States is giving rise to high-tech surveillance fortresses and fueling calls for an ever-expanding border wall. He also weaves in stories of people engaged in creative defiance of the armies, border patrols, and police being deployed to fight those in need. Miller passionately makes the case for ecological restoration, not border militarization, as the best way to achieve sustainability and security"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: On the front lines of climate and borders; title: Sustainable national security : climate adaptation for the rich and powerful; title: The 21st-century border; title: Threat forecast : where climate change meets science fiction; title: Phoenix dystopia : mass migration in the homeland; title: The Philippines and the future battle at the frontlines of climate change and global pacification; title: People's pilgrimage : toward a solution of cross-border solidarity; title: Transition and transformation; title: Epilogue.