The climate crisis is killing migrants trying to cross the US border, study finds

Guardian ^ | 12/16/21

[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.

[webheart]

Nobody ever died in the desert before.

[gundog]

Build the wall

[Dalberg-Acton]

Oliver should lay off the dope.

[4Liberty]

[Dogbert41]

My screen was splattered with coffee.

[Obadiah]

Women and minorities hit hardest. Hey, maybe they should shelter in place, huh?

[webheart]

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

[joshua c]

seems fair. spend trillions to facilitate the invasion

[BusterDog]

“My screen was splattered with coffee.”

*****

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

[Myrddin]

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.

[McGavin999]

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.

[PGR88]

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.

[mt tom]

ask me it i care

[BusterDog]

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

*****

Another good reason to fire up the charcoal grill!

[AAABEST]

In that case we need more climate crisis.

[lastchance]

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

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

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!

[robowombat]

Ha Ha. Nature defends the USA .

[BenLurkin]

Build
The
Wall