Blog Post 20: Mexico and Climate Change
Central America has been described by Todd Miller, author of ‘Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration and Homeland Security’ as ‘ground zero’ for climate change. Mexico is part of the dry corridor region, where the population mainly consists of subsistence farmers who are solely dependent on agriculture for income, meaning that 400,000 people in this corridor of Central America are food insecure, due to drought . The fact that Central America is an isthmus, meaning that there are two large bodies of water on either side, intensifies the potential impacts of climate change, such as sea level rise and extreme weather events. In turn, the prevalence of these events further destabilises the political system which is already riddled with corruption, resulting in poverty, little money invested in infrastructure and high levels of gang culture and crime. In fact, according to a Columbia University Report cited in the New York Times (2017), ‘ where rainfall declines, “the ri...
