Sealing America's borders isn't enough for the Trump administration. They want to seal everyone's borders - and destroy the post-WWII global consensus that at least gave lip service to people fleeing dictatorships and failed states and genocide - not to mention, more recently, climate change and natural disasters.

And do we take one more step to a world run on lifeboat ethics - where the developed West builds itself enclaves of "civilization" and leaves the rest of the world to fend for themselves in the climate collapse it caused.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/27377775

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Gullies are expanding across cities that are built on sandy soils and lack adequate drainage. When there are heavy rains, water accumulates on roads and rooftops. When the drainage systems are inadequate, the water finds its way into unprotected ground, carving deep holes that can stretch for hundreds of metres. Over time, the gullies swallow houses and other infrastructure, and sometimes even result in deaths.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35021465

JP Morgan chase recently published a comprehensive climate report which spelled out to its investors how they should be adapting to the coming storm and pointed out all the lucrative investment opportunities a warming planet presents (like melting sea ice & thawing permafrost opening up new trade routes and mining sites, and increasing temperatures providing an uplift to the air-conditioning market. Meanwhile the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, who are financial risk managers, published their own analysis with a very different outlook. This video compares and contrasts the two reports.

JP Morgan document / dark comedy: https://www.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm/cib/documents/Building_intuition_for_strategic_decision_making.pdf

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51495315

Seawater intrusion into the delta, where the Indus River meets the Arabian Sea in the south of the country, has triggered the collapse of farming and fishing communities.

more than 1.2 million people have been displaced from the overall Indus delta region in the last two decades

The downstream flow of water into the delta has decreased by 80% since the 1950s as a result of irrigation canals, hydropower dams and the impacts of climate change on glacial and snow melt, according to a 2018 study

British colonial rulers were the first to alter the course of the Indus River with canals and dams, followed more recently by dozens of hydropower projects.

Earlier this year, several military-led canal projects on the Indus River were halted when farmers in the low-lying riverine areas of Sindh province protested.

See summary: The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics