Climate Change and Starvation by Laura Westra

Author:Laura Westra
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030421243
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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L. WestraClimate Change and StarvationPalgrave Insights into Apocalypse Economicshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42124-3_5

5. Migrants and Refugees from South America to North Africa, Starvation and Climatic Conditions Not Acknowledged

Laura Westra1

(1)Maple, ON, Canada

Laura Westra

Abstract

Westra turns to the practical results that follow both scientific research advances and the powerful corporate opposition to any law that might restrict their operations, regardless of the human rights disasters that will follow. Most affected are the Indigenous peoples, and Canada has specific regulations protecting their First Nations (Fns) and so do New Zealand, Australia, and several South American nations. Yet in all instances corporate impunity wins, as those victimized by ineffectual laws attempt their desperate escapes from North Africa and the Middle East in unsafe boats, attempting to reach the closest nation in the Mediterranean to find safety. Legal regimes exist both for the protection of those arriving on land and on the high seas. But the racist attitudes they find in the countries of arrival, especially Italy, mean that populist/Fascist governments are intent on scoring points for future elections rather than respecting the law. Their position is to blame the victims for their plight, calling them complicit with those who explicit them.

Keywords

RacismIndigenous peoplesIneffectual legal regimes on land and seaPopulism and Fascism in Italy and other Mediterranean countries

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