150 hurricanes later, these island people can teach us a few things about surviving climate change

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By Brentin MockSep 30, 2014, 5:31 pm45 pts
As coastal cities and states strategize ways to protect residents from climate change impacts, they would be well-served to talk with members of the Gullah/Geechee Nation. These are the people, descendants of enslaved Africans, who live on a 35-mile-long string of islands stretching along the Atlantic seaboard…

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