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Where will everybody go?

While the world continues to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, there are others who are fighting against the impacts of climate change.

With drought leading to intense flooding leading back to droughts in Guatemala, many people are beginning to leave their country for fear of starvation due to impossibly difficult farming situations.

(ProPublica, approx 50 minute read)

Even as hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans fled north toward the United States in recent years, in Jorge’s region — a state called Alta Verapaz, where precipitous mountains covered in coffee plantations and dense, dry forest give way to broader gentle valleys — the residents have largely stayed. Now, though, under a relentless confluence of drought, flood, bankruptcy and starvation, they, too, have begun to leave. Almost everyone here experiences some degree of uncertainty about where their next meal will come from. Half the children are chronically hungry, and many are short for their age, with weak bones and bloated bellies. Their families are all facing the same excruciating decision that confronted Jorge.