As people move away from flooding and heat, new research suggests that those who remain will be older, poorer and more vulnerable.

As people move away from flooding and heat, new research suggests that those who remain will be older, poorer and more vulnerable.

  • sp3ctr4l
    15•3 months ago

    Oh, that’s easy!

    No one.

    Our society can barely handle a (minimum) estimated 0.7 million homeless.

    We don’t give a fuck about people who are disabled and cannot work and are on their own.

    Half the country went completely insane when a virus threatened to kill tens of millions, and the government had the audacity to ask people to wear masks, and not shove horse dewormer up your butt.

    When we get internal climate refugees, we will just double down on pretending that either they don’t exist, or that the rapidly growing problem is being solved via wholly inadequate, understaffed amd underfunded nonprofits that would need to have 100 to 1000x the funding to actually address the current problem.

    Optimistically we will get concentration camps.

    Hoovervilles can’t exist, those are are homeless encampments that the militarized police will clear out and destroy every 3 months.

    Realistically, internal climate refugees will just be ‘homeless people’, left to wander and die.

    • shastaxc
      3•3 months ago

      Most people didn’t choose to live where they are, and many can’t afford to leave.

    • @[email protected]
      1•3 months ago

      If someone was born in New Orleans, lived their whole life in New Orleans, and had no family, friends, or funds to leave on their own, it’s not their fault for being in New Orleans. Another part of the problem is the very basic issue of, if they are lucky enough to be homeowners, who are they going to sell their flood-plane homes to, Fucking Aquaman?!