In one Project 2124 scenario, the AMOC suddenly collapses in the year 2044. Europe soon gets much colder, resulting in a massive refugee crisis. In 2057, the US welcome climate refugees from Scandinavia, Ireland, and the Baltic countries, in a huge diaspora known as the Ice Exodus.
A Little Background
Diaspora
A diaspora (sometimes voluntary, sometimes forced) is the dispersion of people from their original homeland. It is differentiated from migration. A diaspora can occur do to a climate or ecological crisis, famine, natural disasters, or by the tyranny of a colonizing power (such as slavery, or as seen in the current Russian invasion of Ukraine). Diasporas are often filled with suffering, heartbreak, pain, and loss, but can lead to hope, community (hromada), and a shared identity.
WLBOTT Word-of-the-Day: hromada / громада; Ukrainian for “community”
Etymology
The term “diaspora” is derived from the Greek verb διασπείρω (diaspeirō), “I scatter”, “I spread about” which in turn is composed of διά (dia), “between, through, across” and the verb σπείρω (speirō), “I sow, I scatter”. The term διασπορά (diaspora) hence meant “scattering”.
Wikipedia
Emigrants Leave Ireland depicting the emigration to America following the Great Famine in Ireland
By Henry Edward Doyle – Illustration from Preface to the First Edition of An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800, by Mary Frances Cusack, Illustrated by Henry Doyle
Bukharan Jews in Samarkand, present-day Uzbekistan, c. 1910
By Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii – This image is available from the United States Library of Congress
Interesting to see how AI collectively interprets the concept of “diaspora“.
Our newest elder, KM, is actively involved in the discussion of the Ukrainian diaspora (https://hromada.us/en/).
Semi-Sequitur: Avoiding Confusion
Diaspora should not be confused with dysphoria, a state often encountered after prolonged WLBOTT exposure.