"What's coming up for me is deep heartbreak," says Ama Francis, climate director at the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP). "There's been this push towards more xenophobic immigration policies across both sides of the aisle. That has significant implications for who the United States considers itself to be - but also for how people can seek safety as we live in these times where our climate is changing and borders are becoming even more violent places."
Under current national climate policies, "the best we could expect to achieve is catastrophic global warming," the United Nations recently warned. Already, disasters push some 25 million people from their homes each year - typically more than the number displaced by conflicts or violence annually, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
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