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The climate crisis is killing migrants trying to cross the US border, study finds
Guardian ^ | 12/16/21

Posted on 12/16/2021 5:26:34 PM PST by BusterDog

Undocumented migrants who attempt to cross the border from Mexico to the US are disproportionately dying in a harsh stretch of desert that is becoming deadlier due to the climate crisis, a new research has found.

Migrants and asylum seekers trying to enter the US are often forced to traverse the harsh environment of the Sonoran desert in order to avoid border patrols and fortified crossing points. This hazardous journey is putting many of them under severe physical stress, according to researchers, with many dying in the heat due to dehydration and organ failure.

This risk will only intensify as the world heats up further due to human activity, with the research finding that in the next three decades migrants will become so dehydrated in the desert that they will have to carry 34% more water with them in order to survive.

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1 posted on 12/16/2021 5:26:34 PM PST by BusterDog
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Nobody ever died in the desert before.


2 posted on 12/16/2021 5:27:44 PM PST by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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To: BusterDog

Build the wall


3 posted on 12/16/2021 5:28:08 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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Oliver should lay off the dope.


4 posted on 12/16/2021 5:29:01 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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5 posted on 12/16/2021 5:29:54 PM PST by 4Liberty (Let's go Brandon 👏 ...👏 ...👏👏👏 https://youtu.be/qr_F_XQrukM?t=1)
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To: BusterDog

My screen was splattered with coffee.


6 posted on 12/16/2021 5:30:18 PM PST by Dogbert41 ("Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6).)
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Women and minorities hit hardest. Hey, maybe they should shelter in place, huh?


7 posted on 12/16/2021 5:30:37 PM PST by Obadiah (Fauci is the golden calf of science.)
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To: BusterDog

It is the water that kills. You need to replenish your electrolytes. They will actually need to carry 34% more Gatorade.


8 posted on 12/16/2021 5:30:44 PM PST by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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To: BusterDog

seems fair. spend trillions to facilitate the invasion


9 posted on 12/16/2021 5:31:13 PM PST by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Dogbert41

“My screen was splattered with coffee.”

*****

Yeah, it combined a couple of my favorite topics in a way I had not seen before.


10 posted on 12/16/2021 5:31:55 PM PST by BusterDog
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They should stay out of the US. We have no obligation to assist their illegal entry and problems surviving in the desert. Stay in your own country.
11 posted on 12/16/2021 5:33:04 PM PST by Myrddin
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Yeah, it’s 70 degrees down there right before Christmas, it’s grueling. If they are dumb enough to try to cross the desert in the summer it’s sort of survival of the fittest.


12 posted on 12/16/2021 5:33:15 PM PST by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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The climate crisis is killing migrants trying to cross the US border,

Mother Gaia, just doing the job Customs, ICE, the Military and the DC deep state refuse to do - protecting the USA's borders.

13 posted on 12/16/2021 5:34:36 PM PST by PGR88
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To: 4Liberty

ask me it i care


14 posted on 12/16/2021 5:34:56 PM PST by mt tom ( )
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To: McGavin999

“Yeah, it’s 70 degrees down there right before Christmas, it’s grueling.”

*****

Another good reason to fire up the charcoal grill!


15 posted on 12/16/2021 5:35:17 PM PST by BusterDog
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In that case we need more climate crisis.


16 posted on 12/16/2021 5:35:37 PM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: webheart

It was a kinder, gentler, milder desert. No doubt.


17 posted on 12/16/2021 5:36:26 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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Wait, what? Oh so now deserts are suddenly hot? How hot is it in December? And just think: If we didn’t have a psychopath in the White house encouraging them, they wouldn’t CROSS THE DAMN DESERT!


18 posted on 12/16/2021 5:36:49 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: BusterDog

Ha Ha. Nature defends the USA .


19 posted on 12/16/2021 5:37:16 PM PST by robowombat (Orthodox )
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To: BusterDog

Build
The
Wall


20 posted on 12/16/2021 5:37:52 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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