Person driven from their home by natural disasters, such as rising sea level, floods, drought, tsunamis, hurricanes, desertification, over-population and depleted aquifers.
Thousands of environmental refugees fled New Orleans, Louisiana when the city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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Get the midflight refuel mug.Rohan: Hey Fred, you suck ass
Fred: I’ll say it
Rohan: hahaha like you have the guts
Fred: UR NEPHEW IN REFUGE
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Rohan: hahaha like you have the guts
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Get the nephew in refuge mug.The concept of "refugee" is an excuse for bigots and racists to espouse their views and to think their ideas are legitimate - in a way that is no longer tolerated when expressed about their colleagues and neighbours.
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Get the refugee mug.A word made up by George W. Bush, and then again by Sarah Palin, is used as a combination of Refute and repudiate, and was declared by the Oxford Dictionary to be technically valid in the way she was using it, if only for the fact that neither Refute or Repudiate would actually make sense in that situation.
Muslim: Hey guys, lets build a mosque near Ground Zero
Sarah Palin: peaceful Muslims, please refudiate your call to action.
Sarah Palin: peaceful Muslims, please refudiate your call to action.
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Get the Refudiate mug.Noun. The well worn international routes taken by forcibly displaced people in search of safety and a better life.
Like many people before him, he fled from his country of origin and traveled the refugee highway from Somalia to Sudan, across the Sahara Desert to Libya, and then across the Mediterranean Sea to Italy where he hoped to receive political asylum.
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