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The country's first climate change casualties? Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within twenty-five years

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    This is an interesting story to be sure. I reacted very negatively to it when I first saw the cover because the sensationalism is absolutely indefensible. Why make something out as the first when...

    This is an interesting story to be sure.

    I reacted very negatively to it when I first saw the cover because the sensationalism is absolutely indefensible. Why make something out as the first when the story itself is more than important enough to tell by its own merit?

    You'd think the Pacific Standard would at least have googled "first US climate displacement" as a basic part of their fact checking.

    Back in 2016 the inhabitants of the sinking Isle de Jean Charles, La., were given a $48 million grant to move their entire community to dry land.. It was all over world media. Was this the moment when the US could no longer ignore the pleas of island countries like Tuvalu that led it not to join the Paris Agreement on climate less than a year earlier?

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