Warmists Super Upset Australia Is Having A Climate Lottery

Can you guess why, exactly, these uber-lefties are upset (technically, they are uber-right, out in the Authoritarian model, but, let’s not confuse things)?

Australia’s climate visa lottery model sets a troubling precedent

Yvonne Su is Associate Professor, Department of Equity Studies, at York University

A new era of climate migration is here, and Australia wants to be at the forefront. When the applications opened for a new ‘climate visa’ to Australia, more than half of Tuvalu’s population of 10,643 applied for it. As the first country in the world to likely become uninhabitable due to climate change, Tuvalu is facing an existential crisis.

The offer? A mere 280 spots a year, selected by lottery. Billed as a landmark agreement and a forward-looking climate adaptation strategy, the scheme was hailed as generous, humanitarian and innovative. But it also sets a troubling precedent.

I had to include that first line. Of course she’s in “Equity Studies”. Anyhow, the number of spots should be really zero. Anyone let in is going to demand that the government, and citizens of Australia, give them everything. That they change for the lottery winners. Because They Are Owed

Lotteries feel fair. They sidestep messy debates about who is most deserving, most at risk, or most responsible. But in doing so, they flatten complex realities. Climate change does not roll dice. It follows decades of underinvestment, colonially imposed infrastructures, and the exploitation of natural and human resources.

For Tuvalu, a small island nation whose carbon emissions are negligible but whose territory is disappearing into the sea, the climate crisis is not a random event. It is a result of choices made elsewhere.

The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union is, on the surface, a humanitarian gesture. But the mechanics reveal much more complicated political manoeuvring. Lotteries depoliticize climate displacement. They reduce it to a numbers game, where the line between inclusion and exclusion is drawn by chance, not accountability.

Depoliticize. Huh. It’s like I’ve been saying for over 20 years: this is not about science, but, far-left politics.

Anyway, this is a long, whiny cult screed, and this is her other point

If climate lotteries become a best practice to pacify populations facing future displacement, we risk turning migration into a series of humanitarian sweepstakes. We ask the world’s most vulnerable to play fair while the game itself remains rigged. For the losers to accept their fate because luck didn’t fall in their favour.

In other words, she wants them all let in. Surprise?

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