This Louisiana town moved to escape climate-linked disaster
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This Louisiana town moved to escape climate-linked disaster

BBC  

This Louisiana town moved to escape climate-linked disaster Lucy Sherriff "I can't smell the water," Chris Brunet says as he sits on the front porch of his new home in Gray, Louisiana. The tribe's new neighbourhood has been named "the New Isle", a homage to Isle de Jean Charles. Lucy Sherriff Thirty-four families have already moved from Isle de Jean Charles to The New Isle Community, 40 miles away in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana Since August 2022, 34 families have moved to the New Isle. Between 2000 and 2020, more than 3.2 million people in the US moved out of "climate abandonment areas" – regions where population loss can be directly attributed to climate change related flood risk.

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