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Climate change will displace millions in coming decades. Nations should prepare now to help them

  • Written by Gulrez Shah Azhar, Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
imagePakistani commuters travel on a flooded street following a heavy rainfall in Karachi, Aug. 31, 2017.AP Photo/Shakil Adil

Wildfires tearing across Southern California have forced thousands of residents to evacuate from their homes. Even more people fled ahead of the hurricanes that slammed into Texas and Florida earlier this year, jamming highways...

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