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By Larry West, About.com Guide to Environmental Issues since 2005

Scholars Predict 50 Million “Environmental Refugees” Worldwide by 2010

Tuesday November 1, 2005
Scholars are predicting that 50 million people worldwide will be displaced by 2010 because of rising sea levels, desertification, dried up aquifers, weather-induced flooding and other serious environmental changes brought on by global warming and the resulting climate changes.

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