climate refugee
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.91 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "“Climate refugees” often wanted to stay in their own country to preserve their society and culture, according to research published by the New Zealand Association for Impact Assessment."
- "Recognising the existential threat facing these communities, in November close neighbour Australia offered climate refugee visas to Pacific Islanders."
- "Kalmus also noted that becoming a climate refugee is not as easy as simply making a choice to move out of a suddenly-uninhabitable location. Uprooting one's life is inherently difficult, and the current geopolitical climate is not exactly welcoming to would-be climate migrants."