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In Migrant Camp, Calif Drought Brings Familiar Desperation
2014-12-31 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: "They were hungry, and they were fierce. And they had hoped to find a home, and they found only hatred.-The Grapes of Wrath Like the fictional Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath, I'd dreamt of eating fresh peaches picked from a tree. Inspired by pastoral pictures on food labels, I'd imagined wading deep into the avocado orchards, tomato fields, and lettuce farms of California's Central Valley. Instead, as my family drove the roads bisecting Highway 99 during a hot week in July, we passed unplanted...
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