This is a chilling video of a voicemail from a Hurricane Sandy victim in the Long Island neighborhood of Rockaway Peninsula. With scientists telling us that climate change is raising sea levels, storm surges and the intensity of hurricanes there is only one way to describe these folks: they are among the first North American climate refugees.
America’s Climate Refugees |
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| By: Kevin Grandia Thursday November 8, 2012 12:15 pm | |



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How many people lost their homes? How long is it estimated before they can rebuild their homes? How many jobs look to be lost forever?
With all due respect, how in the world could you have forgotten about the Katrina Diaspora, hundreds of thousands who never were able to return to the coast? So many of their houses were destroyed immediately, then many more were destroyed by the new gentrification.