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| | After Katrina, the climate just gets worse and worse |
 | | Over and over, people said that the scenes from the convention center, the highway overpasses and the other suddenly infamous Crescent City venues didn't "look like America," that they seemed instead to be straight from the Third World. |
 | | He looked at all the obvious places -- coastal China, India, Bangladesh, the tiny island states of the Pacific and Indian oceans, the Nile delta, Mozambique, on and on -- and predicted that by 2050, it was entirely possible that 150 million people could be "environmental refugees," forced from their homes by rising waters. |
 | | Try to imagine, that is, the chaos that attends busing 15,000 people from one football stadium to another in the richest nation on Earth, and then multiply it by four orders of magnitude and resituate your thoughts in the poorest nations on Earth. |
| www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/09/11/ING38EJQKC1.DTL (951 words) |
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