Then the crackdown. Then people flee.
Or the drought pushes them to pasture their animals in unfamiliar territory. Or the island is swallowed by the sea inch by inch. Or the livestock cannot handle the heat.
The city stops servicing some of the roads by the beach. And people start saying, “It’s just not worth it.”
Or the water doesn’t come at all. The drought pushes people off their farms or out of their traditional pasturing lands. It pushes them into cities. Then protests start.
Or the water comes suddenly. In the high tide during a nor’easter that breaks records. Or in the sudden downpour that causes rivers to overrun their banks yet again. Or in the hurricane that floods neighborhoods that never flooded before.
[Thread] Water comes slowly at first. Skies open up in the afternoon now. People start avoiding certain streets at high tide. The nuisances pile up. Houses get raised, then raised again. Insurance people are talking about “repetitive loss properties.” Homeowners are worrying.
Look, if you’re reading this and you reject the fact that climate change is happening, these pieces probably aren’t going to convince you, because you haven’t been convinced by anything else. But climate disruptions cause human disruptions.
“Exodus" is an attempt to pick that knot apart, to discuss what climate science says about our rapidly changing world and how those changes are, in ways both subtle and direct, forcing people to migrate.
These disruptions are happening, and the way they’re playing out in different places is a complicated knot of local factors, with weather, infrastructure, politics, violence and more playing a part.
Four-month-old baby polar bear Nanook explores her surroundings for the first time at the Gelsenkirchen Zoo, under the watchful eye of her mother. https://t.co/9zpqjjN4Et
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