We Need to Talk About a Planned Retreat from Climate Disaster Zones Now

We Need to Talk About a Planned Retreat from Climate Disaster Zones Now

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kxv73/we-need-to-talk-about-a-planned-retreat-from-climate-disaster-zones-now

Long before she became an expert on the destabilizing effects of climate change, Idowu Ajibade lived them. As a young girl growing up in a marshy lowland neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, she recalls her family frequently leaving home when water levels got too high.

“At the time, I didn’t even know about climate change,” said Ajibade, who is now an assistant professor of geography at Portland State University. “But what I remember very clearly is that we would often get flooded and we would have to go to higher ground.”