Todd Miller is coming to Vermont to talk about his new book Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security. His book is timely and important, just perfect at this time.
Please join Todd in Montpelier as he reads and discusses his book on November 7th at 5:30
Unitarian Universalist Church 130 Main St, Montpelier, VT 05602
Link to Facebook event page: https://goo.gl/WDFtv6
According to U.S. military planners, climate change now poses a top national security threat to the United States, on par with terrorism. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre reports that one person is displaced every second by environmental disaster, numbers that are now even higher than war and conflict. The problem is not just the droughts, fires, and floods are driving ever-larger numbers of people to cross national borders, but also the highly militarized border armies being deployed to stop them
In fast-paced prose, Todd Miller travels to hot spots in the United States and around the globe to investigate how environmental crisis is creating millions of climate refugees. In a world where the rich and the poor are increasingly divided by militarized borders, Miller explores how a sense of threat in the United States is giving rise to high-tech surveillance fortresses and fueling calls for an ever-expanding border wall. Throughout, he weaves in stories of people engaged in creative defiance of the armies, border patrols, and police being pitted against those in need. Miller passionately makes the case for both international solidarity and ecological restoration, not border militarization, as the best way to achieve sustainability and security.
If you would like to sponsor or would like more information please contact Amanda Garces at 520-333-8864 agcolombia (at) gmail.com
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