More news on how climate change is forcing people to move, this time to escape rising temperatures and calamities. Propublica had a story out today on how flooding is increasingly forcing people to move. Noting that,
the number of people forcibly cast out of their homes by natural disasters, counted very few displaced Americans in 2009, 2010 and 2011, years in which few natural disasters struck the United States. But by 2016 the numbers had begun to surge, with between 1 million and 1.7 million newly displaced people annually.
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The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”
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