The climate change movement is not one that obviously parallels the open borders movement; it’s not a civil rights or social justice issue (except insofar as it might disproportionately harm the world’s poorest — but the same could be said for almost any noteworthy public policy issue) and it has far more clout and attention than migration. But there are three things that I think we have in common:
- Political leaders love to make grand statements about how they must and will act on these pressing issues
- Political leaders take no meaningful action to address the issue whatsoever (other than very marginal policy changes)
- This, in spite of reasonably strong agreement amongst experts in the field who have devoted their lives to the study of the issue that strong action is needed — and that strong action will have large impacts
Continue reading We’ll likely have open borders before serious climate change mitigation