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Read the following passage and answer the question based on it: The mounting reality of climate migration represents a deep and vexing challenge to confront the ethical and planning paradigms of global society. As melting polar ice, desertification, and violent weather patterns make large areas uninhabitable, millions are already being forced off their land, in the process creating a new generation of forced migrants who now have no official legal status as 'climate refugees.' The issue now is no longer whether this will occur, but how countries ought to act together and fairly. A thorough solution calls for a multi-faceted strategy: first, the creation of new international humanitarian and legal protocols to acknowledge and safeguard climate migrants and shift away from the present, limited definition of refugees. Second, it requires proactive, not reactive, policy, such as the establishment of legal and safe channels of resettlement, strong humanitarian assistance for uprooted persons, and serious investment in building climate resilience among those who are likely to be vulnerable, so that they are not displaced in the first place. How does the passage characterize the current definition of 'refugees' in the context of climate migration?