The Rising Tide Of Environmental Refugees

news.newamericamedia.org — The modern world has long thought of refugees in strictly political terms, victims in a world riven by competing ideologies. But as climate change continues unabated, there is a growing population of displaced men, women and children whose homes have been rendered unlivable thanks to a wide spectrum of environmental disasters. Today, it is believed that the population of environmentally displaced has already far outstripped the number of political refugees worldwide.

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