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How to Reframe the Migration Debate for Climate Change
As the planet warms, migration is expected grow rapidly. More fair distribution of economic development can help slow it down, says the head of the United Nations Development Programme.
Migrants wait at the US and Mexico border wall in El Paso, Texas.
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The world set a shameful new record last year: More than 100 million people have now been forcibly displaced from their homes.
There are many reasons behind this movement, but impacts driven by climate change are playing an increasingly significant role, and that number is set to balloon as the planet gets warmer. By 2070, some 3 billion people could be “left outside the climate conditions that have served humanity well over the past 6,000 years,” according to a 2020 study.