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Let's talk about climate refugees in the US today....

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Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about climate refugees in the US today....

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Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about the

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climate and impacts that we can see now that are starting now that will get worse over time.

0:17.0

Off the coast of Louisiana, there's a place,

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I'll Beijing Charles, and it's an island that's home to a native group.

0:32.0

And I've read a lot about to a native group.

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And I've read a lot about it and there's some conflicting information, but they have lived

0:39.2

there an incredibly long time.

0:41.8

And one of the things I read said that there was a consolidation that

0:44.8

occurred people trying to get away from the Indian Removal Act. Very long

0:50.2

time they lived there but they don't they're not going to live there anymore.

0:55.4

They're going to live in a place called New Isle. 12 homes were just handed over to the

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residents.

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Now they get the homes and lots for free.

1:05.5

They have to pay the taxes and insurance.

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They stay there for five years.

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They own the houses outright.

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New Isle is a 515 acre location. It's going to be a development.

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It came into being through a 48 million dollar grant back in 2016 from HUD.

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It used to be a sugar farm. This is happening because their island is going away.

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It's going under water.

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Louisiana's coastline loses an area about the size of Manhattan every

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year. This is a real thing. We now have official within the United States

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