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climate refugee
climate refugee n. a person who moves to a place where the climate is more congenial or beneficial (now rare); (now) a person forced to move to a different home, region, or country because of the effects of climate change.
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1889 San Francisco Chron. 1 Jan. 10/7 The county, to be sure, is greatly aided by the regular winter's invasion of tourists and Eastern climate refugees.
1895 S. Riverside (Calif.) Bee 13 Apr. With anything like reasonable fares on the overland lines, at least 40 per cent of these climate refugees would make a trip to California, for nobody cares to go to sea during the winter months.
1911 Bedford (Indiana) Daily Mail 15 Mar. He is a climate refugee from the frigid east, and is looking for a home under genial skies of Southern California.
1928 Albany (Missouri) Capital 16 Feb. 3/4 This friend..is primarily a climate refugee. He flees from cold in Massachusetts and shivers pitifully in a Florida cold snap.
1989 Times 6 June 5/4 (heading) Global climate ‘refugees’.. More than 300 million people could become environmental refugees next century.
1994 Econ. of Climate Change (Proc. OECD and IEA Conf.) v. 77 Considering both the costs of sea level rise protection and the costs of climate refugees from coastal regions, [etc.].
2007 Philadelphia Feb. 75/1 Gore shows large parts of San Francisco, Beijing, Shanghai and New York becoming submerged. The result, he says, will be tens of millions of ‘climate refugees’.
2019 D. Wallace-Wells Uninhabitable Earth i. 7 The U.N. projections are bleaker: 200 million climate refugees by 2050.
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