Migration is Messy and Common: 1895 Lehtävä Laiva (ship set-to-sail in Finnish)
Lisa Fitzpatrick
Understand Earth’s systems:
atmospheric systems,
ocean systems,
hydrologic systems,
geologic systems,
polar systems,
ecosystems,
social systems
these systems…
DrivenLikeNeverBefore(fossil fuel consumption)
by human technologies and activities. Rapidity and magnitude of human-driven changes.
………sustained droughts………repeated, severe flooding……………oceans rising…………..lakes warming………..
…………more frequent, intense hurricanes and cyclones…………….saltwater intrusion into coastal aquifers……..
…….wildfires…..smoldering fires burning underground under snow……ancient glaciers melting….record heat….
………………..more frequent earthquakes……………………..loss of farms………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………typhoons swamping islands permanently…………………………….. …..creatures changing ranges……migration? ………………..wild turkeys moving north…………………………
…………..moose moving north…………………………..possums moving north…………birch trees fading………….
…….ticks, ticks, ticks………
Affecting people, leading to displacement within regions and the world.
Migrating………climate migrants………climate hedge-betters……..economic migrants………climate refugees………you and me……
…..love all creation, all neighbors and ourselves……
With thanks to NSF for the descriptions.