CLIMATE MIGRANTS — Jacques Cousteau’s grandson: Latin America to face mass climate migration

One of the grandsons of famed French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997) says he expects a sharp rise in migration in Latin America due to the worsening climate crisis.

In an interview with Efe in Los Angeles, his birthplace and place of residence, 40-year-old ocean explorer and researcher and conservation activist Philippe Cousteau Jr. lamented the «massive» environmental destruction of the past half-century and cited as one example the large-scale deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

Source: efe.com , English edition