One of the most backward, impoverished states of the entire UuuuNited States of ‘Merica has figured out it’s, well, it’s screwed. The epiphany came in the form of a roadmap to sea level rise, storm surge, coastal and lowland inundation just released by the state government entitled “Our Land and Water”
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The Disaffected Lib: What Is the Window of "Creeping Normality"?
Think of it as the “new normal” or as Wikipedia puts it: “Creeping normality or death by a thousand cuts is the way a major change can be accepted as the normal situation if it happens slowly, in unnoticed increments, when it would be regarded as objectionable if it took
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: "There Was No Rain"
Climate change refugees are on the march and they’re coming not just from Africa or the Middle East or some low-lying atoll in the South Pacific, they’re migrating poleward in the Americas too. Todd Miller went to southern Mexico to interview climate migrants. Where are they from? Where are they
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