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More than 1.2 million Americans are currently displaced from their homes thanks to climate change impacts—including increasingly severe storms, wildfires, and flooding. The US has been slammed by at least 910 ecological disasters in the last 10 years, resulting in nearly 8 million people losing their homes. Some 50 million Americans are expected to be affected by climate migration in coming decades. Add to that widespread drought and crop failure in Central America continuing to force people to pull up stakes and make the dangerous journey north. Hurricanes Eta and Iota decimated Guatemala and Honduras, causing more refugees to head to the US.
www.commondreams.org/views/2021/09/22/climate-change-triggering-new-refugee-crisis-inside-us
www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/world/americas/guatemala-hurricanes-mudslide-migration.html