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climate refugees

climate refugees is the plural of climate refugee.

Meaning of climate refugee

Noun

climate refugee (plural climate refugees)

  1. (archaic) A person who moves somewhere with a more pleasant or healthy climate.
    1. (archaic) A person who is forced to flee their home due to anthropogenic climate change that made their region unliveable.
      • 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 March 29, David Allen, The New York Times

Questions about climate refugees

What is climate refugees the plural of?
Climate refugees is the plural of climate refugee.

Words near climate refugees in the dictionary

  1. climate migrant
  2. climate migrants
  3. climate migration
  4. climate neutrality
  5. climate refugee
  6. climate refugees
  7. climate sceptic
  8. climate sceptics
  9. climate science
  10. climate sensitivities
  11. climate sensitivity

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