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You have to understand
I want to go home
No one leaves home unless home is a shark, a gun, a sweaty voice that chases you and says, "Leave"
Your words do not roll off my back, but are softer than a limb torn off.

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Children's young lives are spent worrying to find  a place they can call home!  ...worrying where they will be a part of ...someday, they may not find them in any other way!

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Children's young lives are spent worrying to find  a place they can call home!  ...worrying where they will be a part of ...someday, they may not find them in any other way!

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UN have to step in do their job in the best way!
So, when or what way?????

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They have happiness within their environment - but that is all they know. They may not think of being resilient - a child has no say in where and how they live, I see them being a child - they don't know any other way

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No one leaves home unless that sweaty voice whispers in your ear telling you to go.

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No one leaves home unless that sweaty voice whispers in your ear telling you to go.

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I know anywhere is safer than here

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forget pride, your survival is more important

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No one leaves the safety of home until there is no safety at home

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the sea is safer than the land

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home chasing you

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No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark

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If displaced because of rising seas, the Marshall Islanders – like anyone put in this position by climate change or natural disaster – would find themselves in legal limbo. They would not qualify as refugees, so would not receive the same international protection, even though they were forced to leave their homes. That’s because “climate refugee” is not a term recognized under international law...

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The greatest challenge facing India is creating enough jobs for its burgeoning population. India’s unemployed sector has never been properly estimated, but it could total as much as 121 million people (Index Mundi 2012).

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"The number of skilled workers graduating from Indian universities is also continuing to increase. Meanwhile, the amount of domestic jobs available to university graduates is minimal."

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“People were fleeing violence and massacres and political persecution that the United States was either funding directly or at the very minimum, covering up and excusing.” said Elizabeth Oglesby

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Thousands of Somalis flee to Kenya to escape drought, famine, and fighting. Many flock to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya which has since become the largest refugee camp in the world.

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"Instead, many graduates from Indian universities migrate to the U.S., where their skills and lower wage demands appeal to high-tech companies."

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“The US has a moral and social responsibility to this population of immigrants as they are complicit in the creation of the conditions of forced migration from the country,” said Sanchez. - "The Violence Central American Migrants Are Fleeing Was Stoked by the US"

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As warming seas climb their shores, Marshall Islanders face becoming climate refugees

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Just 15 years old

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Grabbing children as soldiers came for us

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Somalia was beautiful and peaceful until the war

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Trauma from experiencing the process of immigration. How do we heal?

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Not everyone gets DACA

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waiting in lines while some walk right in legally

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very arbitrary

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caps on asylum

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worn down by the system

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Inconsistencies in system

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People are trying but the process is so confusing you need support navigating

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Distance between danger and refugee camps. How far did they walk?

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Immigration lawyers are expensive

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What is the line? It's so long.

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rising sea levels drowning lands that had no part in creating climate change

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mansions on one side of the border, factories paying $3/hr on the other

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This makes me think that sometimes the United States is pushing individuals out of their home countries because of their political policies and actions (e.g. how the U.S. disproportionately contributes to climate change)

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A son carrying his mother through a flood

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A child standing alone in the rubble

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What we do in Madison with consumption and energy use affects people around the entire world.

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Often there are multiple reasons to move: war, religious persecution, climate change, etc.

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This makes me think about the Collective Value.. How it is something so natural for some people

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North American Free Trade Agreement pushes Mexicans from their homeland

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I wonder how we can support this area to try and reverse the deforestation.

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Droughts in Afghanistan make the land unfarmable

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6,000 unrecognized Muslim refugees from Myanmar built shelters by the Naf river

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I think of teachers asking "why those girls (Hmong) can't flush the toilet?  (this was in the 90's)  I explained that in camps, there is no toilet, children don't know how to use one.

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This makes me think about how climate change will change where people will immigrate to for personal safety / refuge

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Femicides in Ciudad Juarez

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9 million people displaced in Syria

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As I view the pictures of the children playing in such a backdrop of destruction, I am left with the idea, how resilient children are. In the midst of chaos, they find time to enjoy the little they have, each other!

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The first picture reminds me of the Million Man March here in the States.

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Collective value principle. Challenging western capitalist view of scarcity

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Fear and heartbreak of family seperation

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The United States has a role impacting push factors for people leaving their home countries

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Resilience and finding joy

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Jen and Ryan Cashman used to live in Paradise, California. They'll remember November 8, 2018 to the end of their days.

"We started smelling smoke," Jen told correspondent David Pogue.

"It's pitch black, and we're now scrambling to figure out where to go and how to get out,' Ryan said. "And as we were sitting in that traffic line, the fire just kept getting closer and closer to the side of the car."

"And we saw these horses that were surrounded in flames," said Jen, "and that's when, that's where it hit me."

What hit them was the Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California history. It destroyed 95% of the town of Paradise, including their home.

Ryan said, "It's everything from our childhood, our children's childhood. We lost everything."

Jen added, "I remember turning to Ryan saying, 'We have to get out of California, we have to. We can't live like this anymore.'"

The Cashmans became "climate refugees" - people driven from their homes by the fires, floods, and hurricanes of our worsening climate.

Jesse Keenan, who teaches at the Tulane School of Architecture, studies the effect of climate change on people and cities. "Some people are being impacted by displacement from storms and forest fires and extreme events," Keenan said. "We think that people are going to be changing their decisions increasingly about where to live, how to live."

Pogue asked, " Are there any examples of that, any cities that you study where that's going on?"

"Really, there isn't a community in America, particularly in coastal America, where we are not seeing some transition away from the coast and moving to higher ground," Keenan replied. "Places like Miami, New Orleans, San Francisco, even in D.C., we see environmental risk from flood shaping property values and shaping where people want to live."

Of course, not everybody has the option of moving. "It's not easy for folks to just pick up and leave a place," said Jalonne White-Newsome, a consultant, researcher and advocate who focuses on climate and racial justice. She said that extreme weather hits communities of color disproportionately hard, yet their residents may be the least able to move.

"It's not that folks want to stay in harm's way," she said, "but the fact that they might not have the resources to move, that they have invested all that they have into their home, whether they're renting or owning it.And then there's also this sense of community. It's that sense of connection not only with their neighbors, but their faith community, their jobs, their kids are in school."

Still, 40 million Americans do move every year. They retire, they graduate, they get jobs or lose jobs, they fall in love or break up.

If you have the luxury of choosing where to live, and climate change is a factor, here's the formula:

You want to be far enough inland to avoid the rising seas and flooding ... far enough north to avoid the worst of the heat waves ... far enough west and north to avoid the hurricanes ... and far enough east to avoid the wildfires.

Droughts are becoming more desperate every decade in our Western states, so you also want plenty of fresh water.

So, where does that leave you? The Great Lakes.

"The abundance of natural resources and fresh water in particular," said Keenan. "Cities like Buffalo, like Cleveland, like Toledo, Ohio, are really prime. There's a cultural capacity, there's a legacy, there's a history. There's infrastructure there. There's art."

That's a good point; there's more to a city than its weather. You also want good schools, fine hospitals, sports and culture, a reasonable cost of living, and a high quality of life.

At least one American city fits all of these criteria: Welcome to Madison, Wisconsin!

According to Satya Rhodes-Conway, Madison's mayor, the city has no hurricanes, no wildfires, and as for sea level rise? "Well, the lakes look pretty steady to me."

She is also a climate-resilience advocate: "We have solar on almost every municipally-owned building. At this point, we have a goal of being 100 percent renewable for city operations by 2030."

"So, people think of Madison as cold," said Pogue.

"What we like to say here is that there's no bad weather, there's only bad clothing," Rhodes-Conway said. "So, you know, if you're properly dressed, you can enjoy being outdoors year-round here in Madison."

"Is it your impression that with the changing climate, the winters are becoming milder here?"

"Yes, today it's above freezing. We're in January. That's not normal, right? Definitely the average, I think, is getting a lot warmer." [Five degrees warmer, in fact, since 1950.]

"So, tell me about what Madison is like in, for example, the summer and the fall?" asked Pogue.

"Well, in the summer, there's so many opportunities to get outside and to enjoy the lakes, to enjoy our neighborhoods," she said. "In the fall you live in this part of the world and you get beautiful color. We have 270 parks in Madison."

Now, no place is perfect. Even Madison.

"When we make another sort of Number One or Top 10, well, that's clearly true for the White population," said Rhodes-Conway. "Is that also true for people of color? And the answer is almost always, no, it's not also true. And so, that's part of our work going forward."

Madison isn't the only great climate-haven city. The Cashman family moved about as far from California's wildfires as they could get, near Burlington, Vermont (which Ryan described as "a very functional, athletic, happy, healthy place"), and they couldn't be happier.

"It's beautiful, it's green, it's not dry, there's no fires that I know of," said Jen. "The community embraced us immensely with our children, And I knew. I said, 'We made the right decision! We made it!'"

BOOK EXCERPT: "How to Prepare for Climate Change" by David Pogue
The science and technology writer and "CBS Sunday Morning" correspondent offers advice on how individuals can adapt to a quickly-changing planet.

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Story produced by Amol Mhatre. Editor: Lauren Barnello.

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Climate refugees: The quest for a haven from extreme weather events

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Jen and Ryan Cashman used to live in Paradise, California. They'll remember November 8, 2018 to the end of their days. "We started smelling smoke," Jen told correspondent David Pogue. "It's pitch black, and we're now scrambling to figure out where to go and how to get out,' Ryan said.