#Women and #girls make up 80% of the people #displaced by #ClimateChange . Once displaced, not only do they have to #survive - they have to care for their families—all while evading the heightened #risk of violence.
https://msmagazine.com/2023/03/23/women-displacement-climate-change-violence
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Speaking of #ClimateDiaspora #ClimateChange and #climatemitigation , most of what is happening in the #us #Mexico border is due to the ongoing destruction of #farming in the south.
Thousands of undocumented migrants cross the US-Mexico border every day, but many get lost in the vast Texas ranchlands and perish. Several NGOs are helping to look for them, trying to give families a sense of closure.
https://www.dw.com/en/us-mexico-border-painful-search-for-missing-migrants/a-64770671?mobileApp=true
Americans are catching up. Climate migration started decades ago. But it’s news to us.
https://apnews.com/article/the-great-displacement-book-reviews-4f3e019e4599fe1f635461d9e4698a93
#ClimateDiaspora #ClimateChange #climatemigration #climatecrirsis #GlobalWarming
“The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration,” by Jake Bittle (Simon & Schuster) Wildfires, floods and rising seas are giving Americans a foreshadowing of what is to come, the author of a new book about the environment says — disruptions on a near Biblical scale.
The fastest growing area of the country is not sustainable while the Water Belt loses population.
#ClimateDiaspora
#PackSwingStates
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/colorado-river-in-crisis
Colorado River in Crisis is a series of stories, videos and podcasts in which Los Angeles Times journalists travel throughout the river’s watershed, from the headwaters in the Rocky Mountains to the river’s dry delta in Mexico.
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