Climate Jihad in Africa: Sea Level Rise, Forced Migration, and Related Turmoil Across the Continent

Cornell University - 2018 Climate Change Seminar by Prof. Charles Geisler

Recorded at Cornell University - February 12, 2018

[stevemartin]

The Climate State and World War III ... this is a VERY important video, an excellent presentation and equally good questions by the students.

It is good that this is on YouTube, but I hope this message can be further spread in book form, something similar to Naomi Klein's 'Disaster Capitalism', but grounded more in the neo-malthusian dysfunctions of what happens when social primates try to become hierarchical-herding primates, and end up as swarming primates.

I think the world-wide scale you are describing in this lecture is empirically irrefutable, and as an emergent phenomenon, not reducible to other academic domains. But I think I could add another dimension that helps describe the rise of this phenomena, though with a corresponding increase in questions and problems, rather than answers and solutions.

My undergrad was in biology, UNC-W (mid '70's), but with a heavy reading of philosophy of science and mathematics ... UNC-Chapel Hill. Some 36 years ago, I moved to Japan where I currently live, and obtained an M.Ed. from Temple University Japan, matriculated into the doctoral program ... but never finished due to the institutional obligations and demands of obtaining tenure at a Japanese college, Jissen Women's University.

I have been teaching in Japanese colleges for about 30 of those 36 years, and having reached a position as an Associate Professor of English Communication, I resigned in protest due to institutionally embedded racist/nationalist policies ... similar to what you hinted at in your lecture regarding immigration.

Japan has a very spotty record of legalized human trafficking regarding technical interns from developing countries, with its 3-year 'technical training' programs as a thin veneer for near slave labor (see Debito's book 'Embedded Racism') ... and with the new low skilled immigrant work labor law going into effect in April 2019, it is only going to get much worse. I have plenty of documentation and first hand experience to back me up, but will leave that for another time.

I still have a slim connection to academia here — I have been vetted to be an adjunct Prof. for Univ. of Maryland as of 2019, and most recently, finished my third stint as preliminary judge for The University of Tokyo's All Japan English Speech Contest.

But more salient for this post, my particular reading background (Karl Popper, Frans de Waal, Jared Diamond, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Antony Loewenstein, etc.) seems to be narrowing in on the increasingly dysfunctional emerging social dynamics ... but an epigenetic phenomena that may have been around since the birth of the species —something along the lines of what is considered 'maturity' of the social primate compared to that of institutionalized primates ... empathy-driven, autonomous morality being replaced by rule-driven, authoritarian morality. Some of the variables include 'dark triad' personality traits, Dunbar's Number, and Hannah Arendt's insight into human nature with the Eichmann trials (followed up by the behaviorist experiments of Ascher, Milgram, and Zimbardo).

If you in particular (or a sympathetic colleague, student, or viewer) are even remotely interested in a collaborative book length effort, please feel free to contact me. I am driven by a moral obligation to offer my services, not as a business opportunity.

Although I have yet to see all of this particular video lecture, I have posted the above message in comments to your other lecture.

Kind regards,
former Associate Prof. of English Communication,
Jissen Women's College
Steven (Steve) Martin, Tokyo Japan.