Maxine Burkett on Why “Climate Refugees” Is Incorrect – and Why It Matters

More and more we are hearing stories about “climate refugees.”  U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell used the term to describe the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe, a community which this year became the first to receive federal funding to relocate in its entirety from their sinking island home on the Louisiana coast. More and more we are hearing … Continue reading Maxine Burkett on Why “Climate Refugees” Is Incorrect – and Why It Matters