Migration
"Places hit repeatedly by hurricanes, floods and wildfires are
unraveling: residents and employers leave, the tax base shrinks ...
it becomes even harder to fund basic services."
"'We need to free ourselves from a sense of guilt'...
'We do not have the moral duty to welcome ... people who are worse off than ourselves'."
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Mateo Renzi, former "centrist liberal" Prime Minister of Italy
From the article, "The Invisible Wall" by Ian Urbina; The New Yorker, December 6, 2021
"24 million people were displaced by weather-related disasters ... in 2019"
"Over one billion ... children live
in countries classified as 'high risk'."
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As the world's weather worsens,
will they stay or will they leave?
“By 2050 ... [we] could have 143 million climate refugees — displaced by ... expanding deserts and rising seas.”
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U.S. military planners are studying contingency options.
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“Jose Luis Zelaya ... came to the United States after living through Hurricane Mitch, [which] killed more than 11,000 people across Central America.”
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“After the hurricane there was a lot of chaos.
A lot of people were looking for water.
A lot of people were looking for medicine.”
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“Climate change ... is ... pushing out people
who can no longer cultivate their land.”
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If that were you, where would you go?
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