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Philip Alston is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Follow him on Twitter at @Alston_UNSR.

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A man walks through an impoverished area of Worcester, Massachusetts on March 20, 2018.

US Can't Ignore That Climate Crisis Will Force 120 Million People Into Poverty

Mainstream discussions of the global emergency, writes a top U.N. official, are remarkably out of touch with the scale of the crisis and the economic and social upheaval it will bring

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