| STORMING THE WALL Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security Todd Miller San Francisco: City Lights Publishing, September 2017 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-87286-715-4 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-87286-715-3 | 270pp. | SC | $16.95 | |
| Page 20: | "If this occurs, due to atmospheric pressure that will accelerate the melting of polar ice, we will see an inundation of densely populated mega-cities and millions acres of low-lying areas inland." |
| I wasn't aware of this phenomenon. Yet it is real. |
| Page 39: | "This could impact the ability maintain local labor conditions necessary to move the elements..." |
| Missing word: S/B "ability to maintain". |
| Page 51: | "He talked about rising seas swallowing portions of Bangladesh and Pacific Islands." |
| Capitalization: S/B "Pacific islands". |
| Page 59: | "Customs and Border Protection (CBP), at more than 60,000 agents had become the largest federal law enforcement agency in the country." |
| Missing comma: S/B "(CBP), at more than 60,000 agents, had". |
| Page 64: | "Large, red-striped Coast Guard cutters patrolled the area, dwarfing the simulated boats moving north." |
| Terminology: S/B "simulated refugee boats" or something similar. The boats themselves were real. |
| Page 73: | "Perhaps, there is no better way to explore the emergence of a 21st-century border system vis-à-vis climate upheavals, than with a Central American's journey north." |
| Misplaced comma: S/B "Perhaps there is no better way to explore the emergence of a 21st-century border system, vis-à-vis climate upheavals, than". |
| Page 96: | "And although many people prefer to stay as close to home after displacement and do not cross an international border, the tales of people from many countries in Africa facing the European border enforcement regime, often referred to as Fortress Europe, are virtually endless." |
| Extra word: S/B "close to home". |
| Page 116: | "In a later interview with journalist Gwynne Dyer in the book Climate Wars, Fuerth commented that..." |
| Neither Gwynne Dyer nor his book is indexed. |
| Page 122: | "Barbara Opall-Rome of Defense News reported in 2007 that 'initial deployment plans for the See-Shoot system called for mounting a 0.5-caliber automated machine gun in each of several pillboxes dispersed along the Gaza fence." |
| What's a (or an) 0.5-caliber gun — one that fires bullets the diameter of paper-clip wire? I have no idea what this should be. |
| Page 132: | "...says William deBuys, author of A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest." |
| William deBuys is indexed, but his book is not. |
| Pages 139-140: | "And much as in the 'See Something, Say Something' campaign of today's Department of Homeland Security, Los Angeles 'housewives' were encouraged to report all hoboes who come to their doors." |
| Verb tense: S/B "came" since this is describing a Depression-era program in the City of Angels. |
| Page 144: | "It is that idling Border Patrol I encountered non the Arizona-California border that makes things happen." |
| Typo: S/B "on". |
| Page 155: | "Surveillance and racial profiling in the Southwest degrades millions of people from all walks of life." |
| Number error: S/B "degrade". |
| Page 185: | "It was as if in a heartbeat Saño had moved his faith from professional negotiators to ordinary people who were putting their bodies were on the line." |
| Extra word: S/B "were putting their bodies". |
| Page 211: | "In other words, each country pursues its own interests brings first and foremost, and for countries like the United States, these have been more often than not beholden to a poisonous fossil fuel industry." |
| Extra word: S/B "first and foremost". |
| Page 216: | "...you could hear the sound of glass and crunching candles under black combat boots." |
| Word order: S/B "glass and candles crunching". |
| Page 228: | "According to Liu, our economy is destabilizing the the climate conditions on which all livings things depend." |
| Typo: S/B "living". |
| Page 231: | "People started to leave—including Teran's four children—for factory work in the city, or for the United States." |
| Word order: S/B "People—including Teran's four children—started to leave for". |
| Page 265: | Index entry: "Enlace Zapatista, 31-32" |
| Index error: There's no such title, or text, on either page indicated. However, it does appear in Note 25 on page 246; it's apparently a periodical. |
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