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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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To: BusterDog

Who says there’s no good news these days?


21 posted on 12/16/2021 5:38:55 PM PST by McGruff
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To: BusterDog

according to plan


22 posted on 12/16/2021 5:38:58 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: BusterDog

Why are they crossing the desert when they can take a private jet using the half million dollars Joe Biden will give them?


23 posted on 12/16/2021 5:39:40 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

We need a border wall to save these poor people.


24 posted on 12/16/2021 5:39:43 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: BusterDog

In most of the country the smell of Christmas is roasting chestnut and evergreens, here in Phoenix it’s the smell of mesquite burning and roasted meats.


25 posted on 12/16/2021 5:40:33 PM PST by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: BusterDog

Illegals for the next 30 years will have water resource problems in the Sonoran Desert.

Huh.


26 posted on 12/16/2021 5:42:36 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President! )
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To: BusterDog

It is so sad that we had a President that ruled with his pen and phone and never made laws against winters and the hottest part of the summer. It is a sad loss of what could have been.


27 posted on 12/16/2021 5:45:24 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: BusterDog

Put the Pipe Down!


28 posted on 12/16/2021 5:49:56 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: BusterDog

They should stay home and avoid coming here at all costs.


29 posted on 12/16/2021 5:52:11 PM PST by Trillian
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To: BusterDog

The deserts of the American Southwest are paradises of comfort, ease, and plenty..........

This article is real craptastic fear porn.


30 posted on 12/16/2021 6:01:00 PM PST by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: BusterDog

oh
these illegals have attained victim status

social climate justice nuke the gay whales


31 posted on 12/16/2021 6:04:31 PM PST by SisterK (recognize and resist tyranny)
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To: BusterDog

Good


32 posted on 12/16/2021 6:07:02 PM PST by dkGba
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To: BusterDog

And this is bad news why?


33 posted on 12/16/2021 6:10:48 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. STILL)
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To: BusterDog

Too bad, so sad.

Maybe we should warn them not to come here because of that.


34 posted on 12/16/2021 6:11:58 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: BusterDog

Not killing enough of them IMO.


35 posted on 12/16/2021 6:12:31 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less!)
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To: BusterDog

There is no climate crisis.


36 posted on 12/16/2021 6:12:51 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: BusterDog

Really? I guess someone haven’t told the 1.7 million who have crossed over that climate change has killed them! Such BS!


37 posted on 12/16/2021 6:21:36 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: gundog
Build the wall

Build a maze that extends for a thousand feet into our border. At the end of each path, install a non-functional water spigot. Might not stop illegals, but will be amusing to watch via security cameras as they struggle with thirst. The only path with an exit leads back to Mexico and a water spigot with salty water. Hey our gov't does nothing, so I can dream can't I?

38 posted on 12/16/2021 6:22:52 PM PST by roadcat
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To: BusterDog

Mexican migrants know you never cross the Arizona border in the summertime. Most of this surge is OTM-Other Than Mexican.


39 posted on 12/16/2021 6:56:02 PM PST by kaktuskid
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To: BusterDog

One of the harshest deserts in the world is now 0.005% harsher.

It used to be you could walk 10 miles before dropping dead in your tracks.
Now you can only walk 9.995 miles and DEAD!


40 posted on 12/16/2021 7:06:58 PM PST by TigersEye (Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
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