Editing Forced displacement (section)

==== Examples of forced displacement caused by human-made environmental disasters ====

* [[2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires]]: Although human-made fires are a normal part of Amazonian agriculture, the 2019 dry season saw an internationally noted increase in their rate of occurrence. The rapidly spreading fires, combined with efforts from agricultural and logging companies, has forced Brazil's indigenous populations off their native lands.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theintercept.com/2019/07/06/brazil-amazon-rainforest-indigenous-conservation-agribusiness-ranching/|title=Rainforest on Fire: On the Front Lines of Bolsonaro's War on the Amazon, Brazil's Forest Communities Fight Against Climate Catastrophe|last=Zaitchik|first=Alexander|date=2019-07-06|website=The Intercept|access-date=2019-10-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/amazon-fires-indigenous-lands/596908/|title=The Land Battle Behind the Fires in the Amazon|last=Sims|first=Shannon|date=2019-08-27|website=The Atlantic|access-date=2019-10-24}}</ref>
*[[Chernobyl disaster]]: A nuclear meltdown on April 26, 1986, near [[Pripyat|Pripyat, Ukraine]] contaminated the city and surrounding areas with harmful levels of radiation, forcing the displacement of over 100,000 people.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Nuclear Disasters & The Built Environment : a Report to the Royal Institute of British Architects.|last=Steadman, Philip.|date=2014|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=9781483106229|oclc=1040599457}}</ref>
* [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine of Ireland]]: Between 1845 and 1849, potato blight, exacerbated by policy decisions and mismanagement by the U.K. government, caused millions of Irish people, largely potato-dependent tenant farmers, to starve or eventually flee the country. Over one million perished from subsequent famine and disease, and another million fled the country, reducing the overall Irish population by at least a quarter.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kelly|first1=M.|last2=Fotheringham|first2=A. Stewart|date=2011-07-01|title=The online atlas of Irish population change 1841–2002: A new resource for analysing national trends and local variations in Irish population dynamics|journal=Irish Geography|volume=44|issue=2–3|pages=215–244|doi=10.1080/00750778.2011.664806|issn=0075-0778}}</ref>