Climate Refugee

In a country with reasonable political stability

You would not imagine a citizen becoming a refugee…

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Yet there are thousands being forced to flee

Their homes these days, alarmingly

Driven not by political turmoil but by change in climate

Global warming increasingly tends to precipitate

Wildfires and floods, tornadoes and hurricanes

That are unfolding at a scale unprecedented and insane

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These natural disasters have tragically created

Climate refugees, whose numbers are estimated

To rise to over a billion in the next twenty-five years

Where would the displaced go, is a question we all fear

As parts of our planet increasing inhabitable become

“Climate migration” would become the survival strategy for some..

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Global warming is a phenomenon in which we

Have played a role, by burning fossil fuels indiscriminately

Climate migration is a pressing problem for this century

That we have to tackle at a global level, collectively