Posted on 10/30/2018 12:28:49 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Thousands of Central American migrants trudging through Mexico towards the US have regularly been described as either fleeing gang violence or extreme poverty.
But another crucial driving factor behind the migrant caravan has been harder to grasp: climate change.
Most members of the migrant caravans come from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador - three countries devastated by violence, organised crime and systemic corruption, the roots of which can be traced back to the region’s cold war conflicts.
Experts say that alongside those factors, climate change in the region is exacerbating – and sometimes causing – a miasma of other problems including crop failures and poverty.
And they warn that in the coming decades, it is likely to push millions more people north towards the US.
“The focus on violence is eclipsing the big picture - which is that people are saying they are moving because of some version of food insecurity,” said Robert Albro, a researcher at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University.
“The main reason people are moving is because they don’t have anything to eat. This has a strong link to climate change – we are seeing tremendous climate instability that is radically changing food security in the region.”
Migrants don’t often specifically mention “climate change” as a motivating factor for leaving because the concept is so abstract and long-term, Albro said. But people in the region who depend on small farms are painfully aware of changes to weather patterns that can ruin crops and decimate incomes.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Sayeth the Lord al-Gore.
/sarc
George Soros is called “Climate Change” ?
Did you notice it took 3 crackheads hitting the pipe to write this tripe.
BARF!
Right on schedule.
If: Guardian
Then: Daily disastrous climate change story.
Their motto: If it’s bad, then it’s obviously due to human induced climate change.
It took 3 writers to come up with a premise this delusional.
Right — because crops never failed before “climate change.” WTF?
ROFL!!!!!!
THREE times today all I had to do was read the headline to burst into laughter :)
Well of COURSE it’s climate change. What else could it be?
Someone was bound to write this crap.
Oh please. They never give it a break do they?
Climate Change (Formerly known as Global Warming): Is there nothing it can’t do?
LOL. You can’t make this stuff up. You really can’t.
“The unseen driver behind the migrant caravan: climate change”
right. because no one in Central or South America was ever poor before “climate change” ...
I was just sure this was going to be an article from the Onion.
But another crucial driving factor behind the migrant caravan has been harder to grasp: climate change.
...
Nobody wants to grasp the manure spread around by the corrupt media and corrupt politicians.
what utter caca
And let's not forget that perennial bugaboo, racism.
“The main reason people are moving is because they don’t have anything to eat.”
That is funny considering most of the people in this caravan look slightly plump. In fact several of them seem like they could use a little exercise.
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