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environmental migrants

environmental migrants is the plural of environmental migrant.

Meaning of environmental migrant

Noun

environmental migrant (plural environmental migrants)

  1. A person forced to migrate away from a traditional living area due to local environmental degradation.
    • While uncertain and prone to fluctuate according to unpredictable social and policy trends, climate change and other environmental pressures will trigger more mass migration over the coming decades, with an estimated 25 million to 1 billion environmental migrants expected by 2050.2021 January 13, Corey J.A. Bradshaw et al., “Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future”, in Frontiers in Conservation Science

Questions about environmental migrants

What is environmental migrants the plural of?
Environmental migrants is the plural of environmental migrant.

Words near environmental migrants in the dictionary

  1. environmental DNA
  2. environmental ethics
  3. environmental impact statement
  4. environmental impact statements
  5. environmental migrant
  6. environmental migrants
  7. environmental protection
  8. environmental racism
  9. environmental refugee
  10. environmental refugees
  11. environmental science

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