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Over the last several years, worsening and multiplying climate-related disasters — from wildfires to floods — have amplified demands for American lawmakers and power brokers to take steps to blunt the impacts of climate change. And while images of devastation — most recently from Hurricane Ida — show all types of Americans are being forced to confront climate change in some fashion, stories from the ground in New Orleans reveal what we have long known: The climate calamity isn’t being felt equally. Specifically, the differing outcomes for whites and nonwhites facing the onslaught of climate crises is increasing calls to address long-standing racial inequalities in housing and infrastructure. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, which keeps a global count of the number of people forced to move within their countries because of natural and human-made disasters, found that more than 1.7 million people in the U.S. were displaced by climate-related disasters last year alone.
