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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…