• BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      This is just the start. A billion people on the Indian subcontinent are next. The tropics globally will desertify as the planet warms. Even the increase in migration from Central America to the U.S. is driven by extreme weather and lapses in agricultural productivity. A 2017 study by the World Food Program found that “no food” was the main reason people from Central America sought to emigrate to the U.S.

      40% of the world’s population - 3 billion people - live in the tropics. A single city is one thing. Where will 3 billion people go?

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        “no food” was the main reason people from Central America sought to emigrate to the U.S.

        No food coupled with political instability and extremely violent criminal groups preventing ability to produce food. Above all, the unwanted US fruit company empires more than a century ago left a legacy of corruption and class conflict in that region.