THE PERRALS OF MASS MIGRATION
June 23, 2015
A pleasure to hear from you (a Flickr friend in San
Francisco). One's physical environs does
shape the content of our work. You have
the pleasures of one of the most architectural rich environs on the whole
planet. I have the violent and always
changing atmospheres of Global Climate change.
We just had a month of flooding
within the backdrop of severe long term drought. May shattered all written records for total
rainfall; but that isn't unusual even within the context of recorded droughts.
Oddly, flooding during sever droughts is common, not an
exception as one might think.
Perversely, it gives people a false sense that the drought has been
broken, when in fact it does not, even without the background of Global
Warming. Ironically, the heavy rains set
us back, as people and governments are less likely to prepare for the
inevitable running dry, so we continue to overuse fossil fuels to stay
comfortable in the summer heat. The heat
is amplified by high humidity, which is also being experienced in Southern
Cal., which state of the art water reserves estimations predict that will run
out in about 10 months. A mass migration
of 20 million or so Southern Cal people will occur in less that one year, and
most of those migrants will pass through Texas before turning north to the
Great Lakes region or continuing east to the southeast; two areas that have
adequate water, but depressed economies and can offer little in terms of
housing for the enormous mass of migrants.
Texas major cities are in the midst of a housing boom, so
many will choose to stop here, causing a dramatic increase in real estate
prices, similar to that of Oregon and Washington. Children of natives of these states will be
priced out of the real estate market and will be forced to live with their
parents, and many retired people will be forced to leave these states because
they will be unable to afford the real estate taxes. We have several friends in Washington that
are face with this very problem. Having
to move away from family and friends in one's late 60's or 70's is a crushing
emotional blow. Call this group,
secondary forced migrants. The
complexity of the social disruption boggles the mind and the minimal resources
(that reads zero) ear marked to deal with the situation.
To date no politician has even mentioned these issues. Our collective heads are buried in the sand,
and distracted by issues of a totally trivial nature. That's how the super rich ruling class wants
it, because all sensible solutions, decreasing fossil fuel consumption means
less profit to ad to their obscene hoard of nearly a trillion dollars in
wealth. Specifically, I am speaking of
people like the Koch Brothers in Kansas.
Since, these same people own all the major media outlets, it will not
surprise me if following the coming migration catastrophe will depend on
alternative media.
Cutting diagonally through the Rockies is a more treacherous
route to the Great Lakes, because of the sparse population and dearth of
services (water and gasoline) and the stress of long elevation changes on all but
very new model cars. Whichever route taken
will be littered with abandoned vehicles, many containing dead passengers from
dehydration. This will put tremendous
stress on the states where peoples journeys end. Pathetically, even though this scenario is oh
so very predictable, no Federal, State or local governments or NGO's
(non-government organizations) even have a plan to make a plan to deal with
this catastrophic event. It will
demonstrate the total failure of government and societies ability to deal with
the mass migrations that inevitably come with climactic change due to Global
Warming, which is 100% due to our own behavior.
The only good that can result, is that watching this unnecessary
catastrophe will wake us up to meet the challenges ahead. This is simply our first test of how we can
adapt to Global Climate change, and we will fail miserably.
Sorry that this news is so bleak on the surface, but
underneath the gloom is an opportunity to awaken the nation to what has been
done to them over the past 25 years, and awaken to revolt against a system that
does nothing to help the 99% of the population.
Some big changes must happen, and must happen soon, or we are doomed to
mass extinction at our own hands. A kind
of sleep walking suicide.
MORRIS CREEDON-MCVEAN,DO
A gentleman and a scholar
Austin, Texas
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