The great climate migration has already begun

New research suggests that climate change will cause humans to move across the planet at an unprecedented, destabilising scale. For many, the great climate migration has already begun, writes Abrahm Lustgarten

Planet Earth - ecology concept, global warming concept, the effect of environment climate change. Elements of this image furnished by NASA (https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/)

Early in 2019, a year before the world shut its borders completely, Jorge A. knew he had to get out of Guatemala. The land was turning against him. For five years, it almost never rained. Then it did rain, and Jorge rushed his last seeds into the ground. 

The corn sprouted into healthy green stalks, and there was hope — until, without warning, the river flooded. Jorge waded chest-deep into his fields searching in vain for cobs he could still eat.