Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: It's time to confront the major factor fueling global migration—climate change

New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter on Tuesday to highlight one of the main driving factors behind global migration that, more often than not, goes ignored by those seeking to quell it: Climate change.

"From wildfires in Alberta to hurricanes in Puerto Rico, climate change is one of the reasons many of us are forced to leave our homes in search of a safer place to live," the video states. "More and more people in the climate movement are connecting the dots. To win climate justice, we need to oppose racism. We know the world's wealthiest countries have burned most of the carbon that is driving climate change today. Asserting the rights of migrants affected by these storms, floods and fires is a way of paying back our climate debts and refusing to be divided."

The United Nations has identified Central America as one of the world's regions left most vulnerable to extreme weather connected to climate change. The region suffered drought from 2014 to mid-2016, leaving millions in need of food aid. While the Trump administration has been slow to address the relationship between climate change and global migration, particularly with regards to the role extreme weather events have played in driving migration from Central America, it is an issue that the government's new Department of Homeland Security chief has touched on.

"These areas are facing significant challenges with food insecurity," he said, noting that the U.N. World Food Programme and the International Organization for Migration "have all written very astute studies about drought, about the coffee price decline and how that's affecting the ability of families to provide for themselves."

AOC is causing MAJOR testicular implosion in both parties. 😏

Why wouldn't you and Dems just vote 'yes' to your green new deal? Maybe your solution is universally seen as a terrible idea. Go back to the drawing board.

newsflash: it's actually endless war. People aren't fleeing Syria because of climate change - it's because the CIA was funding ISIS. And, once trump stopped that, and ISIS was gone, the people returned to Syria. Their homeland, where they want to be.

She is an IMBECILE...Fits right in with the writers at Newsweek! The worst people on earth...Omar, Cortez, Rashida, liberal democrats in the house and senate... and the writers at newsweek!

Fucking lol.

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