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Climate change and water shortages: potentially millions of climate refugees

August 27, 2020August 12, 2019 by AZ BlueMeanie

Axios recently reported that “17 countries use more than 80% of their available water supplies every year, meaning droughts or increased water demand for agriculture and growing cities could leave them at risk of crisis, according to the World Resources Institute.” Last year, the nearly 4 million people who live in Cape Town, South Africa … Read more

Asylum seekers who are ‘climate refugees’ migrating because of food insecurity

August 27, 2020June 7, 2019 by AZ BlueMeanie

The recent surge in refugees seeking asylum along the U.S.-Mexico border is falsely portrayed by right-wing media like the Washington Examiner as Border shock: 50% surge in gang members, 650,000 illegal immigrants will be freed into US in 2019. This kind of racist anti-immigrant fear mongering is repeated by racist white nationalists like Tucker Carlson … Read more

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