Climate Refugees

[AndyH]

Somewhere on the forum we've talked about this documentary but I cannot find it. Anybody know where it is?

http://www.climaterefugees.com/Home.html

There is a new phenomenon in the global arena called “Climate Refugees”. A climate refugee is a person displaced by climatically induced environmental disasters. Such disasters result from incremental and rapid ecological change, resulting in increased droughts, desertification, sea level rise, and the more frequent occurrence of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, cyclones, fires, mass flooding and tornadoes. All this is causing mass global migration and border conflicts. For the first time, the Pentagon now considers climate change a national security risk and the term climate wars is being talked about in war-room like environments in Washington D.C.

Free on Hulu
http://www.hulu.com/watch/392828

Netflix
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Climate_Refugees/70129455

Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Climate-Refugees/dp/B0089PEBW6

 

[AndyH]

6 billion Others

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQBHF-NOaQ[/youtube]



Keynote Address by Dr Larry Brilliant, President & CEO, Skoll Global Threats Fund, USA at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2013.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10B20mQgXBM[/youtube]

The trickle of climate refugees could turn into a flood...

 

[AndyH]

Meanwhile, parts of Alaska continue to melt...
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013...y-climigration-in-the-face-of-climate-change/

It has become a staple for news coverage of natural disasters: shocked residents, standing among the wreckage, promising to rebuild. But as climate change and sea level rise are permanently altering the landscape, it may not make sense to rebuild in precisely the same location. That reality has already arrived for many communities in northern Alaska, where the vanishing sea ice and permafrost have left entire towns at risk of being washed away. If the experience of those residents is anything to go by, we're woefully unprepared for the new reality.

http://www.npr.org/2013/05/18/185068648/impossible-choice-faces-americas-first-climate-refugees

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2013/may/13/newtok-alaska-climate-change-refugees