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The Climate Apartheid

It Could Happen Here

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Apocalyptic Flooding in China

As extreme weather events grow more common, the victims of such catastrophes will include ever greater numbers of what was formerly the global one %. Even when climate disasters hit cities and affluent countries, the leve of suffering experienced within that city still breaks down on class lines. The truth is that we have spent our entire lives in climate a partide western nations,. through extracting resources and out sourcing industrial processes to the rest of the world. Until wild fires changed the calculus. We had no cities with air as dirty as new deli or shinzen, china. You don't expect people to die in a flood in germany. You expect it may be in poor countries, but you

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