Fascism & Global Heating — George Monbiot Explains Why They Go Together
, has a knack for writing about difficult topics in a way that cuts through the rhetoric and makes thorny problems understandable by people of ordinary intelligence — like me. I write for a living, but make no pretense that my articles are as cogent, thoughtful, or well reasoned as those written by Monbiot.on June 15, 2023. Ordinarily, we don’t import entire articles from other sources, but trying to excerpt what he wrote would do violence to his argument and the clarity of his vision.
A recent paper in the scientific journal Nature identifies the “human climate niche”: the range of temperatures and rainfall within which human societies thrive. We have clustered in the parts of the world with a climate that supports our flourishing, but in many of these places the niche is shrinking. Already, around 600 million people have been stranded in inhospitable conditions by global heating.
These conditions include extreme disruption, morbidity and death through heat-shock, water stress, crop failure and the spread of infectious disease. The figures do not take into account the effect of rising sea levels, which could displace hundreds of millions more. India, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Sudan, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and central America face extreme risk. Weather events such as massive floods and intensified cyclones and hurricanes will keep hammering countries such as Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Haiti and Myanmar. Many people will have to move or die.In the rich world we still have choices.
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