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Disappearing States of America

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Trump calls climate change “a hoax”. Scientists predict his Miami home will soon be underwater. Of course, he’s got lots homes. But what about those who have nowhere to go when the water rises? We went to Louisiana – a State sinking at the rate of one football field every hour – to meet America’s first ‘climate change refugees’.
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