The pandemic has provided these wealthy nation-states with the opportunity to implement systems in real-time to deal with the inevitable outcome of their taking insufficient action to address the climate emergency. A lot of it has been testing the limits of what people will accept.
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What will be grimly humorous is what will happen when the coal-rolling nativists who cheer on the closing of borders discover that the same guard labour keeping out brown furriners will also be deployed against domestic climate and economic refugees, likely including themselves.
I liken it to the larger game of political-economic musical chairs that’s been developing in the U.S. for the last 40 years – our own “Squid game”. The guards will soon be shooting anyone (not just PoC) who dares to try and grab one of the few remaining seats from someone already occupying one.
