Storming the Wall
Todd Miller has spent the last fifteen years researching, writing about, and working on immigration and border issues from both sides of the US-Mexico border for organizations such as BorderLinks, Witness for Peace, and NACLA. He spent the majority of his time in Tucson, Arizona, and Oaxaca, Mexico, with brief stops in New York City thrown in for good measure. He has spent the most of his life near to the United States' international line, both south and north, between Tucson and the Buffalo/Niagara Falls region of New York state, where he grew up. He is the author of Border Patrol Nation (City Lights, 2014), and his border essays have featured in publications such as the New York Times, TomDispatch, Mother Jones, The Nation, Al Jazeera English, and Salon.
Climate change is now the top national security concern to the United States, surpassing terrorism, according to US military planners. According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, a person is four times more likely to be compelled to relocate due to environmental disaster than owing to conflict, and environmental disasters displaced 19.2 million people globally in 2015. Droughts, fires, and floods are causing an increasing number of people to cross national borders, and the problem isn't simply the massive number of people on the move, but also the legions of heavily militarized border forces deploying to stop them.
Todd Miller travels to hot areas in the United States and around the world in fast-paced language to uncover how the environmental crisis is spawning millions of climate refugees who are testing the developed world's boundaries and resources. Miller investigates how a perception of fear in the United States is fuelling calls for high-tech monitoring fortresses and an ever-expanding border wall. He also weaves in stories of people defying the army, border patrols, and police who are mobilized to fight those in need. In Storming the Wall, Miller passionately argues that the greatest way to accomplish sustainability and security is through ecological restoration rather than border militarization.
Author: Todd Miller
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