El Bosque, a fishing village on a narrow strip of land between the Gulf of Mexico and the Usumacinta River in Tabasco, became Mexico's first community officially recognised as displaced by climate change in 2023. Erosion and storm surge had destroyed or damaged more than half of its roughly hundred homes. In November 2024, 51 families were moved into identical new houses in Nuevo Bosque, 7.5 miles inland. Safe from flooding for about 30 years, the move cost them the sea: fishing was their income, food and social life, and women earned fish by helping unload boats at night. Two years on, residents describe grief, money worries and long trips back to the coast, while families left out of the relocation still don't know why.

In 1909 D. W. Griffith made a 14-minute film about a speculator who corners the wheat market and doubles the price of bread. A farmer sows his field while a 'Wheat King' gambles in the Chicago wheat pit; bakers raise the loaf from five cents to ten and the poor line up for bread. Griffith cut back and forth between the farm, the feast and the breadline, a technique called parallel editing, so audiences saw both ends of the economy at once. The film drew on Frank Norris's stories and on a real scheme: months earlier Chicago financier James Patten had cornered wheat, sent bread prices up and made about $5 million, roughly $185 million today.