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Climate Migration

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I've warned about climate migration before .  The second chapter of my novel, not yet completed, was going to be about the United States stationing machine guns at the border to fight off the immigrants.  I wish I had completed that chapter when I was working on the novel four years ago because it now looks prophetic. The United Nations is warning about food supply . The world’s land and water resources are being exploited at “unprecedented rates,” a new United Nations report warns, which combined with climate change is putting dire pressure on the ability of humanity to feed itself. A particular danger is that food crises could develop on several continents at once, said Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the lead authors of the report . “The potential risk of multi-breadbasket failure is increasing,” she said. “All of these things are happening at the same time.”  The result, they suggest, is se