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environmental refugee

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.
by Comfortably Nigel April 28, 2011
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