Issue 6
World
Migration due to Climate Change.
This is something that is not talked about often enough. Regardless of your position on the current state of US borders and (lack of> immigration reform, what we’re facing now is nothing compared to what’s coming with climate change. It seems absent as a major topic. While DeSantis charters flights of Venezuelans to Massachusetts, and quietly allows migrant labor to help clean up after hurricanes, there’s no serious political discussion about addressing the many issues. This article posits a weird answer though. Removing National Borders. I’ve only heard that previously proposed from anarchists who have no personal knowledge of what fills the power vacuum left by failed states - warlords. So, while I welcome a discussion in the main-stream-media this one is a bit bizarre to me. It seems to be the perspective of a cushy Western nomad and doesn’t include the perspective of someone driven out of the Sahel by drought and famine. This will be hard-core Maslow’s hierarchy of need, and only the bottom two levels of the pyramid. Nations evolved from territorial monarchies and something will evolve from Nations, likely after the collapse of our current civilization. with its corresponding population decline. I have a book she wrote in my library but I’ve yet to read it. She has other titles which look really interesting.
Holiday Update
Kinburn Spit
Ok, I’ll try my hand on a bit of Narrative Geography (term first coined here). In following some news about the Ukraine war, I came across the following article which names the “Kinburn Spit”. Unfamiliar with it, I had to look at the map and some other mapping apps to get a better idea of the geography.
- Article (has a good map>: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-launches-assault-to-oust-russia-from-key-black-sea-peninsula-11669114391
- Overview map for browsing: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kinburn+Spit/@46.5690215,31.7599189,10.18z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x40c6615687aba063:0x1004d6a16150a80c!8m2!3d46.5666667!4d31.5166667!5m1!1e4 The spit is at the outlet of the Buh (or Southern Bug> and Dnieper rivers and the Russians have used it as a launching point for attacks on Mykolaiv, across the bay. Mykolaiv is a major Ukranian port, exporting about 35% of exports in a typical year. It looks like a better deep water port than Kherson. This is not the first battle on Kinburn. The Battle of Kinburn in 1865 was a major land-naval engagement of the Crimean War (also the war where Florence Nightingale became famous for her work>. It was also the first use of modern “iron clad” ships in warfare. The British and French navy was successful and the Russian fort surrendered.
- Some nice photos and an article about the spit from the Odessa Journal: https://odessa-journal.com/kinburn-spit-a-remnant-of-the-ancient-country-of-gilea/
- It was apparently also the site of the Greek colony Gilea, and referred to by Herodotus. Map of other Greek Colonies in the Black Sea. Which is not something I’ve ever known before, but makes sense geographically. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_ancient_Greek_colonies_in_northern_Black_Sea-pt.svg
United States
[United States, Northwest](https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=45.997119%7E-117.004504&lvl=6.8>
Good article from NYT on Mt. Adams, Mt. Hood, the Columbia Gorge and what happens when the seasonal snows change in the PNW.
Great photos too. “Life Was Built Around Snow. What Happens When It Vanishes?”
Klamath Dams removals are finally all approved: