The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

Another great American migration is now underway, this time forced by the warming that is altering how and where people can live. For now, it’s just a trickle. But in the corners of the country’s most vulnerable landscapes — on the shores of its sinking bayous and on the eroding bluffs of its coastal defenses — populations are already in disarray.

  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
    131·
    9 months ago

    The people in charge of the US and EU are very much aware, that’s why they’ve been working so hard to criminalize migration and make it so refugees can be thrown out without full hearings. Their solution to this is trying to make it so all the poor brown people die quietly out of sight of their voters.

    • andrewta@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 months ago

      Dark joke of the day

      What do you call 25,000 dead brown people at the border?

      Camouflage for the 5,000 under them.