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by abdullahkhalids 1289 days ago
Here is a nice visualization from the UN from 2021

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/065d18218b654c798ae9f36...

> Over the past decade, weather-related events triggered an average of 21.5 million new displacements each year

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That's a function of growing population in poor areas to live (flood plains, dessert). Changing CO2 concentration to deal with this is about the least effective way I can imagine to help these areas.