climate refugee

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Noun

climate refugee (plural climate refugees)

  1. (now rare) A person who moves to a place where the climate is more congenial or beneficial. [from 1980s]
    1. A person who is forced to flee their home due to anthropogenic climate change that made their region unliveable. [from 1980s]
      • 2023 March 29, David Allen, The New York Times‎[1]:
        His best friend, the nature writer Barry Lopez, died of prostate cancer that December, three months after a wildfire had burned parts of his home near the McKenzie River in Oregon, making him a climate refugee.
      • 2023 November 11, Nic Fildes, “Australia offers Tuvalu islanders resident visas to escape effects of global warming”, in FT Weekend, page 1:
        “Climate refugees” often wanted to stay in their own country to preserve their society and culture, according to research published by the New Zealand Association for Impact Assessment.
      • 2023 December 8, “COP28: Tuvalu negotiator travelled 8,000 miles to save her home”, in BBC News‎[2]:
        Recognising the existential threat facing these communities, in November close neighbour Australia offered climate refugee visas to Pacific Islanders.
      • 2024 April 15, Matthew Rozsa, Salon‎[3]:
        Kalmus also noted that becoming a climate refugee is not as easy as simply making a choice to move out of a suddenly-uninhabitable location. Uprooting one's life is inherently difficult, and the current geopolitical climate is not exactly welcoming to would-be climate migrants.

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