Climate refugees from Haiti are only the beginning of catastrophe | PennLive letters – pennlive.com

The Haitians are only the first wave of climate refugees from South and Central America. The refugee crisis will only get worse because global warming is getting worse. Drought and failed crops in the regions farther south are leading to starving populations.

The problem facing the United States in dealing with the growing crisis is the partisan divide in government because Republicans and Democrats cannot agree on what the problem actually is. The Democrats are divided among themselves and President Joe Biden is unable to balance their competing interests. The Republicans with their investment in the fossil fuel industry and skepticism, at best, about global warming do not see the root cause of the refugee crisis. It is not about better job opportunities, but survival.

With their 19th century notions of civil liberties, small government, pandering to gun rights, anti-abortion, anti-vaccine, anti-science, anti-green energy, anti-immigration, anti-global warming, and anti-tax advocates, Republicans have no solutions to offer, but an appeal to Social Darwinism (euphemistically called meritocracy), hyper-individualism and hyper-masculinity. They continue to tell Americans to go on like it is the 1950s. If they gain the majority in Congress in 2022, God help us all, because things will get much worse, much faster.

In the next few years, as the catastrophe of global warming in the United States and worldwide gets much worse, solutions in the US, if any, will come too little and too late, because of senseless partisan squabbling in Congress.

George Magakis, Jr., Norristown, Pa.

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