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The Unseen Driver Behind the Migrant Caravan: Climate Change

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Tue, 2018-10-30 05:53 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

Honduran migrants taking part in a caravan heading to the US, walk alongside the road in Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, on 24 October. Photograph: Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images

CLICK HERE - STUDY - World Food Programme - FOOD SECURITY AND EMIGRATION - Why people flee and the impact on family members left behind in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras (24 page .PDF report)

While violence and poverty have been cited as the reasons for the exodus, experts say the big picture is that changing climate is forcing farmers off their land – and it’s likely to get worse

theguardian.com - by Oliver Milman, Emily Holden, and David Agren - October 30, 2018

Thousands of Central American migrants trudging through Mexico towards the US have regularly been described as either fleeing gang violence or extreme poverty.

But another crucial driving factor behind the migrant caravan has been harder to grasp: climate change.

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Tue, 2018-10-30 08:26 — mdmcdonald

Kathy, 

Thank you for such a wonderful post.  The image of thousands of hungry people standing at the US border having collectively walked thousands of miles to escape a violent and uncertain future in their homeland -- only to face 10,000 US soldiers at the border is such a vivid image of the conditions of our humanity at this time in the evolution of our species on this amazing planet. 

Mike

Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H. 

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Oviar Global Resilience Systems, Inc. 

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Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.

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From: Kathy Gilbeaux <noreply@m.resiliencesystem.org>
Subject: [climate-change][4 other groups] The Unseen Driver Behind the Migrant Caravan: Climate Change
Date: October 30, 2018 at 5:53:28 AM EDT
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Honduran migrants taking part in a caravan heading to the US, walk alongside the road in Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, on 24 October. Photograph: Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images

CLICK HERE - STUDY - World Food Programme - FOOD SECURITY AND EMIGRATION - Why people flee and the impact on family members left behind in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras (24 page .PDF report)

While violence and poverty have been cited as the reasons for the exodus, experts say the big picture is that changing climate is forcing farmers off their land – and it’s likely to get worse

theguardian.com - by Oliver Milman, Emily Holden, and David Agren - October 30, 2018

Thousands of Central American migrants trudging through Mexico towards the US have regularly been described as either fleeing gang violence or extreme poverty.

But another crucial driving factor behind the migrant caravan has been harder to grasp: climate change.

(CLICK HERE - READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

 

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