A Ledger of Names Grows Heavier as the Corridors Widen

JAKARTA — The number that Hearth Relief International raised last week — registered climate migrants climbing past 120 million as heat corridors widen — arrives at the Cilincing intake hall as a single clipboard. On it, this morning, is Sri Wahyuni, sixty-one, who walked out of a delta village the tide no longer leaves. "They tell me I am one of a hundred and twenty million," she said. "I only know I am one." Intake coordinator Bayu Pratama says the corridor's pace, not its size, is what strains the shelter: arrivals that took a season now take a month, and the Passage Trust lanes that funnel them south are running near capacity for the fourth straight week. The Oceanic & Atmospheric Assembly logs the same anomaly its ledgers have carried since spring — a global mean +2.8°C above the old baseline — but here the figure has a face and a clipboard, and the clipboard is filling faster than the beds.