We Just Want the Chance to Stay: Stories from Guatemala and the Borderlands on Climate and Belonging

“That, to me, is what climate adaptation should look like: It’s small cooperatives, youth projects, local entrepreneurship: investments that don’t just protect against storms but nurture belonging."

This is a modified excerpt from We Just Want a Chance to Stay: Stories from Guatemala and the Borderlands on Climate and the Right to Stay, a report just published by Climate Refugees, an organization that brings attention to and takes action to help people displaced by climate change. Amali Tower is the executive director of Climate Refugees and a long…