{"id":47445,"date":"2019-07-27T08:11:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T13:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47445"},"modified":"2019-07-27T08:11:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T13:11:22","slug":"tomgram-andrew-bacevich-future-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47445","title":{"rendered":"Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Future History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Future History<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In Donald Trump\u2019s go-back-to-where-you-didn\u2019t-come-from America<\/a>, where the fear of immigrants (as well as their grotesque mistreatment<\/a>) still seems on the rise, just wait. There\u2019s so much more to come. Climate change has barely begun to hit this planet big time and yet, while there\u2019s much writing<\/a> about the grim circumstances (including gangs, drugs, and violence) that continue to send desperate Central Americans north to the U.S. border, global warming is also a growing factor<\/a> in the equation. If the weather destroys<\/a> the possibility of growing your food, you\u2019ve got to do something else or go somewhere else. In the coming decades, count on one thing: thanks to the way we\u2019re changing our very planet, ever more people are going to be uprooted from their homes and sent wandering<\/a> in desperation across this globe of ours. And if you think about it, since Donald Trump is so desperately intent on aiding and abetting<\/a> the intensification of global warming via fossil-fueled projects of every sort, he should really be considered the ultimate \u201cinvader<\/a>\u201d of this country. Given what we know about the reactions of those not forced to flee to those who are — to, in fact, a planet already filled with the displaced and refugees escaping violence on a scale<\/a> not seen since the end of World War II — expect things to grow worse. More heat<\/a>, more upheaval, more wars, and whatever turns out to follow the \u201cpopulist right\u201d on an increasingly unnerved planet, along with potentially 250 million or more<\/a> displaced people by perhaps mid-century. Given the backstory so far, it\u2019s not likely to be pretty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Future History In Donald Trump\u2019s go-back-to-where-you-didn\u2019t-come-from America, where the fear of immigrants (as well as their grotesque mistreatment) still seems on the rise, just wait. There\u2019s so much more to come. Climate change has barely begun to hit this planet big time and yet, while there\u2019s much writing about the grim circumstances (including gangs, drugs, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[13611,141,7844,1912,328,3814,6463],"class_list":["post-47445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-andrew-bacevich","tag-climate-change","tag-donald-trump","tag-food-production","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-refugees","tag-tom-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47446,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47445\/revisions\/47446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}