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Disappearing Opportunities



Environmental Refugees

In some parts of the world, children are born as environmental refugees. They have no home. Their parents have long since cleared the forest and there is no longer arable lands or clean drinking. They and their families wander the barren land in search of any patch of forest they can clear just to get through the next few months, maybe years.

The Worldwatch Institute estimates today there are more than 10 million such people - those who have lost their homes and land because of environmental degradation - worldwide, making them the largest class of refugees
 

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