America’s First Climate Change Refugees are Preparing to Leave an Island That Will Disappear Under the Sea in the Next Few Years – Business Insider
Article Synopsis – Louisiana state officials have announced that everyone living on Isle de Jean Charles will need to leave, making the island residents the first climate refugees in the United States. A combination of subsidence and rising sea levels has reduced the island from 22,000 acres to 320 acres since 1955. State officials have chosen land an hour away to build a new town for the residents of Isle de Jean Charles. This resettlement will be a blueprint that could one day be followed by countless other communities confronted by climate extinction. To read the actual article click here.