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| Map showing where natural disasters caused/aggrevated by global warming will occur, and thus where environmental refugees will be created (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
News networks do this because treating natural disasters
like war gives them a compelling way to tell stories about storms like
Harvey and Irma.
The problem is that war requires an enemy — some “bad
guy” for people to fight against. And that need to find a bad guy has
warped the focus of news coverage during natural disasters.
