A Long Road Home

Gillian B. White, The Atlantic: Business
Mon, 08/03/2015 - 4:36am

Ruinous floodwaters, pipe-bursting cold, and destructive wind do not discriminate when it comes to victims. But while natural disasters may strike without prejudice, the path to recovering from them is much less equal. To start, natural disasters displace a tremendous numer of people every year. A new report from the Norwegian Refugee Council and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre finds that in 2014, more than 19 million people around the world were forced from their homes due to natural disasters.

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