Australia has just brought in Climate Visa’s…
Rising ocean levels are already threatening low-slung Pacific Island nations, some of which are situated atop atolls—ring-shaped coral reefs often surrounding lagoons—just a few meters above sea level. Nikkei Asia’s Sophie Mak reports that many citizens of one of them, Tuvalu, are “now hoping to acquire the world’s first climate migration visa that will allow 280 Tuvaluans to move every year to Australia, where they will have the right to live, study, and work without restrictions. The inaugural ballot opened on 16 June and closes Friday. The most recent available official data show that as of July 11, a total of 5,157 applications had been submitted, accounting for nearly half of the small Pacific island nation’s population of 11,000.”
Climate migration is expected to grow. In 2020, Fareed talked with journalist and author Abrahm Lustgarten about large migratory flows that are expected to be driven not only by rising oceans but also by extreme heat, violent weather, crop failure and other climate-related phenomena. Some of the world’s poorest countries and people, located in vulnerable areas and possessing the fewest resources to cope, are expected to be hit hardest and to be driven most urgently to attempt to emigrate. In November, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson wrote for Wired: “To date, most climate migration has occurred within nations, but as the regions affected by extreme weather expand, that will need to change. We will have to be vigilant about keeping xenophobia at bay, acknowledging the cruel injustice at play as the lowest greenhouse gas emitting nations, like the Pacific islands, are the first to be inundated.”
…this as a new UN Court ruling means wealthy nations can be sued for climate change…
Top UN court says treaties compel wealthy nations to curb global warming
…all this while National, ACT and NZF empower the polluters at our collective cost…
Who Benefits: The power of the farm lobby, part one
This first story in Newsroom’s Who Benefits series is a deep dive into proposed changes to freshwater policy. Agricultural lobby groups pushed for further changes, and then ministers intervened.
…the polluters and their political puppets while scream climate change is a socialist hoax while you get left behind…
Government can’t be the de facto insurer of property after weather events – Matt Whineray
…Sure, the petrol companies knew and lied and hid the truth of global warming since the 1990s, and sure every right wing Government has done everything to ensure the biggest polluters were left unscathed, so now the real impacts are being felt, go fuck yourself dumb Kiwi!
You understand you are being played now this report is out right?
The catastrophic climate change the Polluters and politicians knew was coming will now be dumped on you and you alone.
Shhhh, keep voting for National, ACT and NZF sleepy hobbits.
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