Climate refugees

The Resource Climate refugees
Label
Climate refugees
Statement of responsibility
directed by Michael P. Nash
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Climate Refugees is the first feature film to explore in-depth the global human impact of climate change and its serious destabilizing effect on international politics. The film turns the distant concept of global warming into a concrete human problem with enormous worldwide consequences. Experts predict that by mid-century hundreds of millions of people will be uprooted as a result of sea level rise and an increase in extreme weather events, droughts and desertification. Little is being done to plan for the potential mass migration of millions of refugees who will be forced to cross national borders. According to the UN, there are already more environmental refugees in the world than political or religious refugees. The Pentagon now considers climate change a national security risk and the phrase 2climate wars3 is being talked about in war-rooms. The filmmakers traveled the world for nearly 3 years to document the impact of climate change, witnessing inhabitants of countries forced to leave their homes by climatic events with little or no protection. The film features a variety of leading scientists, relief workers, security consultants, and major political figures, including John Kerry and Newt Gingrich. All make a strong case that, whether human-caused or a product of nature, the changing climate is already creating humanitarian disasters and will inevitably lead to worldwide political instability. Climate Refugees was filmed in Bangladesh, Tuvalu, China, Fiji, Chad, Sudan, Kenya, Maldives, Europe and the US
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
CHV rating: Not rated
Language note
Recorded in English ; closed-captioned
PerformerNote
Barack Obama, Ed Begley Jr., Al Gore, Newt Gingrich, John Kerry, Desmond Tutu, Bill Ritter, Nancy Pelosi
Runtime
84
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action

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