heatexile
/ˈhiːtˌɛɡzaɪl/nounUnverifiedA person displaced, temporarily or permanently, by heat their home can no longer be cooled against.
Not a climate refugee crossing borders — often the heat exile just moves upstairs to a cousin's, sleeps in the car with the air running, or abandons a top-floor flat for three months a year. The displacement is small, recurring, and unnamed until now.
Etym. — heat + exile: exile at room scale, repeated annually, invisible in migration statistics.
Rel. — climatesplaining
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