"Climate change is never the sole driving factor behind migration decisions," said Kayly Ober, senior advocate and program manager for the Climate Displacement Program at Refugees International. "We see a confluence of events."
Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, told CNBC at least a third of the migrants LIRS works with cite climate-related reasons as a primary factor for their displacement. Sarah Blodgett Bermeo, a professor of public policy and political science at Duke University, recently co-authored aUsing available data from 2012 to 2019, the study found that negative rainfall was associated with greater numbers of Honduran families apprehended at the U.S. southern border. Higher levels of violence, as measured by homicide rates, increased the magnitude of the association even further.
"We cannot say it's violence, we can't say it's climate change, we can't say it's family reunification. It's everything. For any given family, it's a slightly different mix of any of these factors," López said.
When climate change is your religion...
The_Japanese_poisoned_the_earths_well 日本人が地球の井戸に毒を入れた Jap_money_Biden 💴
Just when I think I can’t read any dumber headlines , here it is. People actually believe this crap
Is it hotter now that Biden is President?
Nothing to do with opportunity, money or cartels... got it....
Build bigger wall, arm the militia throw alligators in rio grand
LOL, yeah it has nothing to do with policies like the $15,000 hand out that New York State wants to give to Illegal Immigrants.
I live in El Salvador, and that is not a reason.
Are you just a mouthpiece for AOC now?
“Experts”. This is why the news, science, etc is all politicized bs now. I can’t believe this is a real article that is printed on CNBC.
You know you can blame the climate or you can blame incompetent south American Governments.
No, it’s the 3rd world shithole country they are fleeing from
Is this the same Guatemala that’s next door to Belize and its average temperature is 72 and its name literally means “Land of Trees”?
Poverty corruption and gangs.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA wow
Of course. It's not commie left wing governments or corruption. Its climate change. Are you guys serious?
Democrat shills say what?
This is the most fucking ridiculous thing I've ever read in my entire life.
such bullshit propaganda
Stop
'food insecurity'
SQUEEZECLOV
😂😂😂😂😂😂. This is pure propaganda for the dumbest portion of society