If All the Ice Melted

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I've read more than one conspiracy theory that says The Wall(TM) is really about stopping the mass migration north that will begin in a few decades due to devastating warming along the equator. The logic went that the right actually believes in climate change MORE than the left, but has to keep it on the down low, or the left would figure out what the wall was really for.

Climate change is real and inevitable. It has been well known and documented for decades. Exxon knew it was happening in 1977, and started spreading misinformation about the subject before it even became a publicly debated issue. Climate science deniers don't disbelieve in climate change, it's just politically inconvenient for them to admit the obvious. The head EPA Administrator/Coal Lobbyist says “most of the threats from climate change are 50 to 75 years out.”

One of the interesting things about climate change is that it won't affect everyone in the same ways. Some areas will be devastated, others will be mildly inconvenienced. Side note: It's no secret that if *poor people* are going to be affected by something, there is no political will to address it, because *poor people* have no political clout. This is doubly true for the economic impact of climate change-- the thing that is well-known, yet we deny that it exists.

We know that climate change is real (including the people who are causing it) and WILL disproportionately affect people in central and south America, as compared to the interior of the continental United States. There WILL be climate refugees. This is as obvious as it is inevitable. Putting this in terms of "the right," "the left," and "The Wall" is dragging a serious topic into the realm of political theater. None of it is conspiratorially secret, none of it is on the down low.