We Are All Climate Refugees Now

• This summer’s fires, droughts, and record-high temperatures should serve as a wake-up call.

The longer a narrow and ignorant elite condemns Americans and the rest of humanity to wander aimlessly in the political desert, the more likely it is that we will all end up in a wasteland.

• Jeffrey D. Sachs
• Project Syndicate

NEW YORK – Modern humans, born into one climate era, called the Holocene, have crossed the border into another, the Anthropocene.

But instead of a Moses guiding humanity in this new and dangerous wilderness, a gang of science deniers and polluters currently misguides humanity to ever-greater danger…