The first American climate refugees show how difficult resettlement is
If you have a hard time moving dozens of people, it becomes impossible in any kind of organized or fair way to move thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or, if you look at the forecast for South Florida, maybe even millions.
—Mark Davis, director of the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy, discusses the U.S. government's first attempt to relocate an entire community—about 60 members of two American Indian tribes who live on Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana—due to the effects of climate change on their land.