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Praise for Storming the Wall by Todd Miller
“A well-researched and grim exploration of the connections between climate change and the political hostility toward the refugees it creates. Journalist and activist Miller (Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security, 2014) expands on his earlier focus on U.S.-Mexico border controversies with an alarming catalog of climatological effects on population movements, surveillance, violence, and other current issues.“The theater for future climate battles,” he writes, “will be the world’s ever thickening border zones . . . vast numbers of people will be on the move, and vast numbers of people will be trained, armed, and paid to stop them.” In eight punchy, discretely themed chapters, the author establishes that the destructive effects of climate change are already manifest and that the U.S. is establishing a violent, heavy-handed pattern of response to it, as seen in the ramping up of border security. Miller visited several locales to witness this bleak transition, including Honduras and the U.S.-Mexico border, and he argues that these developing strife zones, far from representing natural change, are fundamentally class-based phenomena: “In the climate era, coexisting worlds of luxury living and impoverished desperation will only be magnified and compounded”. . . A galvanizing forecast of global warming’s endgame and a powerful indictment of America’s current stance.”
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This is why the image of a border barrier, semi-consumed by Mother Earth and covered with small purple flowers, is so important, for it is a testament that the course we are currently on is not the only option. In today’s climate era—some are calling it the Anthropocene—there are millions of people who are opting for sustainable lifestyles and practices, opting to organize against climate change, against militarization, and against the suicidal business-as-usual scenario. There are environmental activists who have risked—and even lost—their lives to raise awareness about the urgency of the current ecological crisis, and to champion sustainable, just, and cooperative living.
As the world becomes more environmentally, politically, and economically volatile, and more and more walls go up, increasing numbers of ordinary people are coming forward to extend solidarity across borders of nationality, race, and class. Against all odds, hope, optimism, and solidarity drive great change. I was surprised and inspired multiple times while researching and writing this small volume by the many people who have launched political, social, and economic projects at a grassroots level, often making connections between people on opposite sides of militarized borders.
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