As Australia continues to burn millions of potential Climate Chance refugees cast their gaze across the Tasman Sea. The logical conclusion of people threatened with what could already be a never ending fire season is to seek refuge. One of the first places they will choose is Aotearoa New Zealand, for cultural, geographical and logistical reasons, not to mention it’s slightly lower latitudes and the mitigating, cooling effects of the island chain being surrounded by oceans that help reduce the apparent warming.
Dangerous’ weather conditions in southeast Australia prompt more evacuations.
“Fires in Australia have incinerated 15 million acres, claimed at least 25 human lives and killed upwards of a billion animals.” One and a quarter billion infact.
Australia is quickly becoming uninhabitable with millions of acres burnt and effectively sterilised of any life.“Firenados” have been burning at incredible temperatures of 2000F or 1090 C.
“Climate-heating emissions from Australia’s devastating bushfires are now nearly on a par with those caused by fires in the Amazon rainforest last year, scientists have calculated.”
“Australia’s bushfires, from September to Jan. 6, emitted 370 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, according to the European Union’s ECMWF Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS).” Carbon emissions from Australian blazes near Amazon fire levels
“The wildfires raging along Australia’s eastern coast have already pumped around 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, further fueling the climate change that’s already intensifying the nation’s fires.”
Very soon it will be impossible to obtain fire insurance in Australia. No insurance…. no mortgage. The aware will sell up early and ‘scarper’ as they say in Oz.
Every single one of the millions of trees that have immolated have released their stored carbon back into atmosphere in a vicious feedback loop. One of the reasons the trees have burnt is Australia is in the grip of the worst drought in 800 years
The sky rivers these forests formerly generated are gone and will not be returning. The worst drought in 800 years is about to get a lot worse. Mega droughts engulf countries written by Robert Hunziker a former guest on Nature Bats Last.
Until recently the majority of refugees moving to Aotearoa have been the wealthy, millionaires and billionaires who have constructed bug out bunkers. Very shortly that trickle will become a torrent and then a tsunami as the wealthy rats abandon their sinking, burning ship.
“Naturally” the poor and indigenous will be left to burn.
“Billionaire hedge-fund honcho Julian Robertson owns a lodge overlooking Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown, the South Island’s luxury resort destination. Fidelity National Financial Inc. Chairman Bill Foley has a homestead in the Wairarapa region, north of Wellington, and Titanic director James Cameron bought a mansion nearby at Lake Pounui.”
“The Investor Plus Visa, which requires a minimum investment of NZD$10 million ($6.7 million) over three years, attracted 17 U.S. applicants in fiscal 2017, after President Donald Trump’s election. Previously, it averaged six applicants a year.” The Super Rich of Silicon Valley Have a Doomsday Escape Plan
What measures have the government in Aotearoa taken to deal with these refugees? What has been done to guarantee our Pacific Island neighbours a habitable place to live?Nothing has been done because the regime in Wellington fits the definition of being “Abrupt Climate Change Deniers” and for final proof of the cognitive dissonance, ignorance and outright lies from James Shaw NZ Green Party of Aotearoa co-leader look at this level of ignorance he just posted on Twitter:
Shaw saying that he can ‘solve’ climate change exposes his intellectual bankruptcy and delusion. The cognitive dissonance surrounding the Seventh Great Extinction is a case study in itself.
I’m editing this post on the 21/01/2020 due to this development from the UN:
“It is unlawful for governments to return people to countries where their lives might be threatened by the climate crisis, a landmark ruling by the United Nations human rights committee has found.
The judgment – which is the first of its kind – represents a legal “tipping point” and a moment that “opens the doorway” to future protection claims for people whose lives and well being have been threatened due to global heating, experts say. Climate refugees can’t be returned home, says landmark UN human rights ruling
So what’s your position on these refugees? Leave your comments below.
I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.
Kevin Hester 
The youth are the climate refugees of the future…oh wait, they already are!
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Nearly half of the (California) youth surveyed said their feelings about climate change negatively affected their daily lives and functioning, and 75% described the future as “frightening.” More than half of the 10,000 youth surveyed — 5,566 — agreed with the prompt “humanity is doomed.”
https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/grieving-california
And it’s going to get so much worse so much faster than anybody really expected. The next El Nino in the Pacific is going to…shall we say, heat things up to broil?
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Selkirk Range weather:
Overcast, -10C, little dustings of snow at night but the predicted snow is due tonight and through tomorrow which will then shift cloud cover east and temps will fall to roughly to about -25C at night and -12C clear sky daytime. It’s about to get real cold here. Not looking forward to it.
I’m about to go deliver a Christmas food bank box to a single mom with a 4 yr old. I promised a dying granny friend (the mom’s granny, g-g to the kid) I’d help look after them, so I do what I can. Granny lived a week after the baby was born and did get to hold it in her arms before she let go and stepped out.
Winter Solstice is coming which I do celebrate since I was born at sunset on a Leap Year’s Winter Solstice. I used to like Summer Solstice, too, until it started being 120’F fucking degrees…now I get to complain about how freaking cold it is this year! Extremes, Kevin, that’s all we have to look forward to. If I was a youth facing all of this I really don’t know how I would deal with it.
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In all honesty, I think New Zealand should pick and choose who comes into the country and who cannot. Send the other ones to South America or the Falkland Islands.
New Zealand needs to protect the natural beauty of the land and allowing people in that will just rape the land is not going to help anyone.
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3.4 Million Adults in U.S. Were Displaced by Extreme Weather Last Year: Census Bureau Survey
https://www.ecowatch.com/extreme-weather-displacement-climate-migration-2022.html
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And look what this winter is doing to the US which is of course not immune from climate collapse and fleeing internal refugees just like New Zealand is getting hit with. We’ve had a winter full of tornadoes roaring, bomb cyclones, never before record-breaking winter storms. Floods. Heat waves. And all of this will cause even more refugees I’m sure. And then there are the southern borders from all the people fleeing climate disasters in Centro America along with murdering governments like Honduras (installed by the US) and roving gangs of cops and government soldiers…so the US is already doing what you are thinking about. Stopping the refugees that are running.
Maybe you can start by keeping out the wealthy US citizens that have build all the mansions and bunkers in NZ the last few years. You really don’t want the autocrats flying in to escape what they have created by their greed and hubris. I can think of a few right off the bat…
Good luck with that by the way!
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This is the situation as it will happen.
Soon the only only livable habitat will be the lands closest to the Antarctic.
That is not a lot of land and definitely not a lot of places to grow food. Whereas I am sure there is room for more people, you need to worry more about who is going to obey NZ laws and who is not.
Obviously people who have lived in a democracy and value Nature will obey the laws.
Governments lead by example so you can expect that any Climate refugees will do whatever their governments have conditioned them to do.
How would you prefer to live out your final years? Would you live them with people who are like-minded or will you spend them with people who will only exploit the land thus shortening the years you have left?
The choices are no doubt going to be hard ones to make but those choices are coming nonetheless.
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No bunker is going to survive, and if by chance nothing breaks down and nothing goes wrong and everything is peachy keen for 50-100 freaking years they’ll open the door to a planet that won’t support life much less their lifestyle. Somehow I don’t think the wealthy are going to be really into eating bugs…if they can find any to eat.
Cockroaches anyone?
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https://www.desmog.com/2023/04/13/bombshell-1989-shell-memo-features-in-new-court-filing-alleging-climate-deception/
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This oil company KNEW they were going to cause incredible death and destruction and KNEW that borders were going to be swamped with climate refugees. So shouldn’t all the assets of oil companies be nationalized and used to mitigate what they deliberately caused to happen (obviously at this point!) in order to increase their freaking wealth???
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Back to refugees:
What’s going to happen if this goes off as expected? Millions of people running for their lives or just the first of many mass die-offs of overpopulated cities?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/16/2164161/-India-may-tip-this-year-to-a-wet-bulb-temperatures-threshold-that-will-test-human-survival
And where are India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka/Bangaldesh going to run to?
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Another article on this happening in the US:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/27/2155206/-Climate-migration-in-the-states-is-underway-and-we-are-not-ready-for-what-s-to-come
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Notice that the upper half of the US is freezing winter weather and the southern/eastern half is under overwhelming heat with TORNADOES in FEBRUARY ripping through states like Oklahoma (RWNJs) and Texas (more RWNJs) to whom their god obviously has a beef with? Funny that you pull somebody out from under a crushed house alive and they give thanks to their god WHO CAUSED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE?
Why don’t their heads explode?
There are too many out of state plates on the roads here, wrong time of year for that…
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Snowing again tonight, another low pressure is landing on us out of the NW Pacific and will send more tornadoes to where they hit yesterday by probably Thursday. Their god really doesn’t like them much.
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‘Apocalypse No’: Man Builds Massive Underground Bunker And Claims It Can Withstand The End Of The World
Under the eight-ton steel doors on the surface, there are 15 floors in the bunker, which accommodates a swimming pool, a climbing wall, arcade and a cinema to keep residents engaged.
https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/apocalypse-no-man-builds-massive-underground-bunker-and-claims-it-can-withstand-the-end-of-the-world-article-99429181?fbclid=IwAR2Nyml2D6zISthzwPGC0Sc1c_8ohKUVgtRtKceh8fdR9O0gRkMYA8wjrK0
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I don’t think there is a government or politician on the planet that really has a grasp of how bad this is going to get. This article has links to other articles in it, one that talks about a billion refugees, but in general there is a lack of foresight and minimization inherent in what they can get themselves to think about. Just the food question is going to overwhelm, ya know? And then there is the refugees flooding in (already at the US/Mexico border) from the hot regions trying to get the hell away from their homelands that we see how Europe and the US are already willing to let die.
A billion on the move? Governments will be using napalm at the borders, anything that works, like Texas now using razor wire to stop the Central American peasants already trying to go north. Human life in these circumstances…will be worth zero I would expect.
The Bold Idea To Move Millions To Climate Havens
How the U.S. can motivate people to migrate before climate change causes chaos in their cities.
https://www.noemamag.com/the-bold-idea-to-move-millions-to-climate-havens/
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But wait, there’s more:
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This is a stupid damned place to build a hideout! Are they daft? Yes of course they are! What is the level of storm surge to clean this little pile of sand completely bare I wonder? Didn’t they see Mexico City?
Bunkers on a very low-lying, practically flat, island in the ‘hurricane alley’ part of Floridiots-land just doesn’t sound like a rational choice that supposedly very rich men make, right?
Or are they just distractions from the ultra-wealthy’s real doomsday bunkers in Patagonia and New Zealand etc etc. But, like Zuckerberg’s huge underground monstrosity in Hawai’i, I guess when you have that much money you can easily build a bunch of them scattered all across the planet so you can always be close to one.
I get the feeling that the local governments, in a major emergency, could legally ‘requisition’ all the supplies in those places. Forces of arms works wonders the world over, doesn’t it? Besides which just tracking down the air intake/exhaust vents over a bunker and plugging them up mean’s they’ll have to come up for air…
Bunch of loonies ruling the world.
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The great migration
https://abcnews.go.com/International/video/exodus-global-migration-106725873?fromLive=true&fbclid=IwAR2gjp_NlX_GkvxPKRQnz3D_SA7s5Pm_QbianQLSBRHzIe8fyiVH6PFAXQI
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Billionaires’ Survivalist Bunkers Go Absolutely Bonkers With Fiery Moats and Water Cannons
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/bunkers-billionaires-survive-apocalypse-cost-features-1235822762/
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The latest billionaire trend? Doomsday bunkers with a flammable moat.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/25/billionaire-doomsday-bunkers-end-times?fbclid=IwAR1fhpltb9Z6GJgkwrccgv4XwmqH3nkW6z1NQ6lq4RyD9Jnmw67ZaF_-a4o
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Here’s a 20 minute short film that answers your question about what the wealthy will win:
UNEARTHED – A SHORT FILM By Dalang Films
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I think you’ll appreciate this one, Kev. And whomever else takes the time to watch it.
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Bunker Business Booming Because Billionaires Bet on Bleakness
If they are right, what is their prize?
https://degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/bunker-business-booming-because-billionaires?r=17jgjv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&fbclid=IwAR1F4VUmuWnWCNcyeptScFtvZU1r26fa-k220GKqVYcWRD_yvbUIdf8KYKY&open=false
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Billionaires are building bunkers and buying islands. But are they prepping for the apocalypse – or pioneering a new feudalism?
https://theconversation.com/billionaires-are-building-bunkers-and-buying-islands-but-are-they-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-or-pioneering-a-new-feudalism-223987/?fbclid=IwAR0argm4fbDYkvXBYIK3R9XGSwpLlZUHPIyF791twSVHrbJf9m7Ct3Tbs3Y
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