Displacement Due to Climate Change

VICE News has reported on a topic that our latest film assignments covers rather thoroughly, and that is displacement due to extreme weather, and more derivatively, climate change. With the rising sea levels that will accost coastal and island communities, and the increasing number and violence of storms that affect chiefly tropical land areas (and as the VICE article states, Asia experiences the most displacement), both of which are caused by global warming and thereby climate change,  we can expect an increase of refugees migrating from their inhabitable communities.

The film Climate Refugees that Jim had us watch essentially covers this topic, but VICE also reports an increase in migration from these suffering locations. As the film suggests, how will the rest of the world cope with the loss of these lands when the homeless people migrate into other countries seeking shelter and safety? And how will those people cope with the permanent loss of not only their homes but their homelands? This is a serious issue that stems from the overarching problem of climate change, and perhaps is people won't sympathize with dying ocean organisms, or affected ecosystems, or even their own food sources affected by climate change and global warming, maybe they will sympathize with the effects on their "fellow man".


Source: https://news.vice.com/article/extreme-weather-displaces-far-more-people-than-war-and-its-getting-worse