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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

More and More Refugees Flee the Devastation of Climate Change | Immigration | AlterNet

More and More Refugees Flee the Devastation of Climate Change | Immigration | AlterNet

Asian countries, home to about 60 percent of the world's population, will be hit hardest by changing weather patterns and a degrading environment, research indicates.

A whopping 90 percent of all disaster displacement within countries in 2010 was caused by climate- related disasters, the international body Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) reported. That year, 38.3 million women, men and children were forced to move, mainly by floods and storms.  Read More Here

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