<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Ryan Fortune</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryan.fortune2012@gmail.com">ryan.fortune2012@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 3:06 PM<br>Subject: 'We're moving to higher ground': America's era of climate mass migration is here<br>To: <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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<div style="text-align:center"><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=6fc19e4f56&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:32px">'We're moving to higher ground':<br>
America's era of climate mass migration is here</span></span></strong></a>
<p style="color:#f2f2f2;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;line-height:200%;text-align:center;margin:10px 0;padding:0"><em><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">By the end of this century, sea level rises alone could displace 13m people. Many states will have to grapple with hordes of residents seeking dry ground. But, as one expert says, ‘No state is unaffected by this’</span></span></em></p>
<p style="color:#f2f2f2;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;line-height:200%;text-align:center;margin:10px 0;padding:0"><em><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">by <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=b56e8951dd&e=83be33d795" rel="author" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Oliver Milman</a></span></span><br>
<span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Guardian UK<br>
24 September 2018</span></em></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">After her house flooded for the third year in a row, Elizabeth Boineau was ready to flee. She packed her possessions into dozens of boxes, tried not to think of the mold and mildew-covered furniture and retreated to a second-floor condo that should be beyond the reach of pounding rains and swelling seas.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">Boineau is leaving behind a handsome, early 20th-century house in Charleston, South Carolina, the shutters painted in the city’s eponymous</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=c57009237c&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">shade</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">of deep green. Last year, after Hurricane Irma introduced 8in of water into a home Boineau was still patching up from the last flood, local authorities agreed this historic slice of Charleston could be torn down.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“I was sloshing through the water with my puppy dog, debris was everywhere,” she said. “I feel completely sunken. It would cost me around $500,000 to raise the house, demolish the first floor. I’m going to rent a place instead, on higher ground.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">Millions of Americans will confront similarly hard choices as climate change conjures up brutal storms, flooding rains, receding coastlines and punishing heat. Many are already opting to shift to less perilous areas of the same city, or to havens in other states. Whole towns from Alaska to Louisiana are looking to relocate, in their entirety, to safer ground.</span></span></span><br>
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<p style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:24px"><em><strong><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ff0000">The era of climate migration is, virtually unheralded, already upon America. </span></span></strong></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">The population shift gathering pace is so sprawling that it may rival anything in US history. “Including all climate impacts it isn’t too far-fetched to imagine something twice as large as the Dustbowl,” said Jesse Keenan, a climate adaptation expert at Harvard University, referencing the 1930s upheaval in which 2.5 million people moved from the dusty, drought-ridden plains to California.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">This enormous migration will probably take place over a longer period than the Dustbowl but its implications are both profound and opaque. It will plunge the US into an utterly alien reality. “It is very difficult to model human behaviour under such extreme and historically unprecedented circumstances,” Keenan admits.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">The closest analogue could be the</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=4938b84b6c&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Great Migration</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">– a period spanning a large chunk of the 20th century when about 6 million black people departed the Jim Crow south for cities in the north, midwest and west.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">By the end of this century, sea level rise alone could displace 13 million people, according to </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=722c2a598a&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff">one study</span></a><span style="color:#ffffff">, including 6 million in Florida. States including Louisiana, California, New York and New Jersey will also have to grapple with hordes of residents seeking dry ground.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“There’s not a state unaffected by this,” said demographer Mat Hauer, lead author of the research, which is predicated on a severe 6ft sea level increase. There are established migration preferences for some places – south Florida to Georgia, New York to Colorado – but in many cases people would uproot to the closest inland city, if they have the means.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“The Great Migration was out of the south into the industrialized north, whereas this is from every coastal place in the US to every other place in the US,” said Hauer. “Not everyone can afford to move, so we could end up with trapped populations that would be in a downward spiral. I have a hard time imagining what that future would be like.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">Within just a few decades, hundreds of thousands of homes on US coasts</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=73b592dfe6&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">will be chronically flooded</a>. <span style="color:#ffffff">By the end of the century, 6ft of sea level rise would redraw the coastline with familiar parts – such as southern Florida, chunks of North Carolina and Virginia, much of Boston, all but a sliver of New Orleans – missing. Warming temperatures</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=6734500d77&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">will fuel monstrous hurricanes</a> – <span style="color:#ffffff">like the devastating triumvirate of Irma, Maria and Harvey in 2017, followed by Florence this year – that will scatter survivors in jarring, uncertain ways.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">The projections are starting to materialize in parts of the US, forming the contours of the climate migration to come.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“I don’t see the slightest evidence that anyone is seriously thinking about what to do with the future climate refugee stream,” said Orrin Pilkey, professor emeritus of coastal geology at Duke University. “It boggles the mind to see crowds of climate refugees arriving in town and looking for work and food.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">Pilkey’s new book – Sea Level Rise Along Americas Shores: The Slow Tsunami – envisions apocalyptic scenes where millions of people, largely from south Florida, will become “a stream of refugees moving to higher ground”.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“They will not be the bedraggled families carrying their few possessions on their backs as we have seen in countless photos of people fleeing wars and ethnic cleansing, most recently in Myanmar and Syria,” Pilkey states in his book. “Instead, they will be well-off Americans driving to a new life in their cars, with moving trucks behind, carrying a lifetime of memories and possessions.” </span><br>
<span style="color:#ffffff">Dejected with frigid New York winters, Chase Twichell and her husband purchased a four-bedroom apartment in Miami Beach in 2011, with the plan of spending at least a decade basking in the sunshine. At first, keeping a pair of flip-flops on hand to deal with the flooded streets seemed an acceptable quirk, until the magnitude of the encroaching seas became apparent when the city </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=5a8d92a0dc&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff">spent $400m to elevate streets</span></a><span style="color:#ffffff"> near Twichell’s abode.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">Twichell began to notice water pumps were spewing plastic bags, condoms and chip packets into the bay. Friends’ balconies started getting submerged. Twichell, a poet, found apocalyptic themes creeping into her work. Last year, she sold the apartment to a French businessman and moved back to upstate New York.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“It was like end of the world stuff,” she said. “It was crazy for us to have such a big investment in such a dangerous situation.” Her neighbours initially scolded her but now several are also selling up, fretting that the real estate and insurance markets for properties like theirs will seize up.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">“It was horrible but fascinating to see it,” Twichell said. “It’s like we got to see the future and it wasn’t pretty. It’s like a movie where there’s a terrible volcano that is destroying everything, only it’s much slower than that.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">A sense of fatalism is also starting to grip some local officials. Philip Stoddard, mayor of South Miami, has seen a colleague, spooked by sea level rise, move to California and some neighbours sell their houses before an expected slump in prices. Stoddard and his wife regularly discuss buying a fallback property, perhaps in Washington DC.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“Most people will wait for the problem to be bad to take action, that’s what I worry about,” he said. “We can buy a lot of time, but in the end we lose. The sea level will go over the tops of our buildings.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">Sanitation is an immediate preoccupation for Stoddard, given the large proportion of residents who aren’t served by sewage works. “If you’re using a septic tank and your toilet starts to overflow into your bathroom because of water inundation, that’s a basis-of-civilization problem,” he said. “A medieval city wasn’t a nice smelling place and they had a lot of diseases.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">Those living near the coasts will face pressures of the gradual (sea level rise) as well as dramatic (storms) nature but people inland will also be harried to move by climate change.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">Farming techniques and technology have improved immeasurably since the Dustbowl but rising temperatures are still </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=7a2d94365f&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">expected</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">to diminish yields for crops such as maize, soybeans and wheat, prompting the</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=96605779a5&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">departure</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">of younger people from farming. By 2050, Texas county, the</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=014ba0b152&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">largest</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">wheat-producing county in Oklahoma, could spend an extra 40 days a year above 90F (32C) compared with now.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#ffffff">A </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=93cefa1707&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">study published last year</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">found that the economies of the southern states, along with parts of the west, will suffer disproportionately as temperatures rise. In what researchers called potentially one of the largest transfers of wealth in US history, the poorest third of counties are expected to lose up to 20% of their income unless greenhouse gas emissions are severely curtailed. Wealth, and potentially people, are expected to shift north and west.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">Meanwhile, cities already struggling with heat will see wealthy residents head for cooler climes. Last year, 155 people died in Phoenix due to a particularly fierce summer. Increasing heat will start testing the durability of the populace, even those shielded by air conditioning. In the western states, wildfires are getting larger, razing homes in ever more spectacular ways and choking thousands of people with</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=12382d3758&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">carcinogenic smoke</a>.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">Further to the south, at the border, there are</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=92f602bb9d&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">suggestions</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">that people from Central America are being nudged towards the US because of drought and hurricanes in their homelands, part of a trend that will see </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=539e9c304e&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff">as many as</span></a><span style="color:#ffffff"> 300 million climate refugees worldwide by 2050.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“People will get very grumpy and upset with very hot temperatures,” said Amir Jina, an environmental economist at the University of Chicago who co-authored the research on economic losses. “Even if you have air conditioning, some areas start to look less habitable. By the middle of the century parts of the south-west and south-east won’t look attractive to live in.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“That insidious climate migration is the one we should worry about. The big disasters such as hurricanes will be obvious. It’s the pressures we don’t know or understand that will reshape population in the 21st century.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">Prodded to name refuges in the US, researchers will point to Washington and Oregon in the Pacific north-west, where temperatures will remain bearable and disasters unlikely to strike. Areas close to the Great Lakes and in New England are also expected to prove increasingly attractive to those looking to move.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">By 2065, southern states are</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=221f85c902&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">expected</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">to lose 8% of their US population share, while the north-east will increase by 9%. A recent study forecast that the population in the western half of the US will</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=5e9b48ef28&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">increase by more than 10%</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">over the next 50 years due to climate migration, largely from the south and midwest.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">But these population shifts are uncertain and are bound by a tangle of other factors and caveats. People will still largely follow paths guided by nearby family or suitable jobs. Even those who do want to move may find favoured locations too expensive.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">Some will just grimly hang on. “With property rights as strong as they are in the US, some people may choose to go down with the ship,” said Harvard’s Keenan. “The question is whether they have the means and the options to do anything else.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“People can usually cope with being a little less comfortable, but if you see repeated storms or severe damage to crops, that will trigger change,” said Solomon Hsiang, who researches how climate change will affect society at the University of California.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“There will be pressure to move a little north. It won’t be everyone, though, it won’t be like the great migration of wildebeest in Africa. Whole cities picking up and moving would be hugely expensive.” <br>
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Smaller towns are giving relocation a go, however. In 2016, the community of Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana was the</span> <a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=826d2e182d&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">first place to be given federal money</a> <span style="color:#ffffff">to replant itself. The population, situated on an island being eaten away by the sea, is looking to move to a former sugar cane farm 30 miles inland.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“We are called climate refugees but I hate that term,” said Chantal Comardelle, who grew up in the Isle de Jean Charles community.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“We will be the first ones to face this in the modern US but we won’t be the last. It’s important for us to get it right so other communities know that they can do it, too.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">About a dozen coastal towns in Alaska are also looking to relocate, as diminishing sea ice exposes them to storms and rising temperatures thaw the very ground beneath them. One, Newtok, has identified a new site and has </span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=8e9f4d286d&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff">some federal funding</span></a><span style="color:#ffffff"> to begin uprooting itself.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">A buyout of damaged and at-risk homes has already occurred in New York City’s Staten Island in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, while certain flood-prone houses in Houston, pummeled by Hurricane Harvey last year, are also being purchased and razed.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">But the cost of doing this for all at-risk Americans would be eye-watering. Estimates range from $200,000 to $1m per person to undertake a relocation. If 13 million people do have to move, it seems fantastical to imagine $13tn, or even a significant fraction of this amount, being spent by governments to ease the way.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“As a country we aren’t set up to deal with slow-moving disasters like this, so people around the country are on their own,” said Joel Clement, a former Department of the Interior official who worked on the relocation of Alaskan towns.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“In the Arctic I’m concerned we’ve left it too late. Younger people have left because they know the places are doomed. These towns won’t be relocated within five years and I’m sure there will be a catastrophic storm up there. My hope is no lives will be lost.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">Ultimately, the US will have to choose what it wants to defend and hope its ingenuity outstrips the environmental changes ranged against it. Not everyone will be able to shelter behind fortifications like the</span> <span style="color:#ffffff">‘</span><a href="https://facebook.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c039247ad2f92d6e7fcef312&id=fd99018268&e=83be33d795" style="color:#e7b932;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ffffff">big U</span></a><span style="color:#ffffff">’ planned to defend lower Manhattan. Wrenching decisions will have to be made as to what and where will be sacrificed.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“We won’t see whole areas abandoned but neighborhoods will get sparse and wild looking, the tax base will start to crumble,” said Stoddard, mayor of South Miami. “We don’t have the laws to deal with that sort of piecemeal retreat. It’s magical thinking to think someone else will buy out your property.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#737475;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:open sans,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:#ffffff">“We need a plan as to what will be defended because at the moment the approach is that some kid in a garage will come with a solution. There isn’t going to be a mop and bucket big enough for this problem.”</span></span></span></p>
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