This New York Times article raises the specter of a new climate change phenomenon: chronic disasters composed of environmental refugees too poor to migrate, and forced to make multiple moves to reach the big city, where they hope to find a job, and too poor ever to go home again and start over.
CONSEQUENCES
SCOTUS Poised to Handcuff the EPA
In the wake of reactionary rulings by the Supreme Court that seized a woman’s right to abortion after the Justices had unleashed potentially lethal freedoms to gun owners, one can only shudder at the prospect of the court’s upcoming decision on West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Abby Luby
June 27, 2022
