Central American Farmers Head to the U.S., Fleeing #ClimateChange

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Central American Farmers Head to the U.S., Fleeing Climate Change

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Drying coffee at a cooperative in the Copán area of western Honduras.CreditCreditCésar Rodríguez for The New York Times

By Kirk Semple

April 13, 2019

CORQUÍN, Honduras — The farmer stood in his patch of forlorn coffee plants, their leaves sick and wilted, the next harvest in doubt.

Last year, two of his brothers and a sister, desperate to find a better way to survive, abandoned their small coffee farms in this mountainous part of Honduras and migrated north, eventually sneaking into the United States.

Then in February, the farmer’s 16-year-old son also headed north, ignoring the family’s pleas to stay.

The challenges of agricultural life in Honduras have always been mighty, from poverty and a neglectful government to the swings of international commodity prices.


But farmers, agricultural scientists and industry officials say a new threat has been ruining harvests, upending lives and adding to the surge of families migrating to the United States: climate change.

And their worries are increasingly shared by climate scientists as well.

Gradually rising temperatures, more extreme weather events and increasingly unpredictable patterns — like rain not falling when it should, or pouring when it shouldn’t — have disrupted growing cycles and promoted the relentless spread of pests.

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1. Children of Men

A 2006 movie staring Clive Owen addressed the issue of climate refugees, along with the rise in infertility rates of women. Scary then, worse now. Ongoing wars and destruction of countries by western powers who only want that country's natural resources add to these horrors. Shame on mankind 😢

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4. TY for mentioning 'Children of Men,' which I want to see.

Can't believe I know nothing of it with the subject, cast and very good review by Ebert.

**** | Movie Review, Roger Ebert, October 4, 2007. It is above all the look of "Children of Men" that stirs apprehension in the heart. Is this what we are all headed for? The film is set in 2027, when assorted natural disasters, wars and terrorist acts have rendered most of the world ungovernable, uninhabitable or anarchic. Britain stands as an island of relative order, held in line by a fearsome police state. It has been 18 years since Earth has seen the birth of a human child.

Watching "Children of Men," which creates a London in ruins, I realized after a point that the sets and art design were so well done that I took it as a real place. Often I fear it will all come to this, that the rule of law and the rights of men will be destroyed by sectarian mischief and nationalistic recklessness. Are we living in the last good times? READ MORE, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/children-of-men-2007

Official trailer. "Children of Men" (2006).

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3. THIS should be on the greatest page.