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Offline rangerrebew

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The 13th First Climate Refugees
« on: June 04, 2024, 07:22:26 am »
The 13th First Climate Refugees
2 days ago Willis Eschenbach 

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [see update at end]

Every few years we get another media piece about the “first climate refugees”. I’ve written about the latest one below.

Here are the first through sixth first climate refugees, and the seventh, ninth, and eleventh-tenth first climate refugees. Where are the eighth first climate refugees? No clue, it’s hard to keep track of them all. Oh, and here are the twelfth first climate refugees.

So where are the 13th first climate refugees? They are some of the Kuna (or Guna) people. They live in Panama, on a tiny island named Gardi Sugdub. And by tiny, I mean minuscule. It is about 1200 feet (366 meters) long and 450 feet (137 meters) wide. The media piece about them is called “Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels“. Inter alia it says:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/02/the-13th-first-climate-refugees/
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

Offline rustynail

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Re: The 13th First Climate Refugees
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2024, 07:29:47 am »
That slum should be more worried about fire.