climate change refugee

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

by Harsha Walia  · 9 Feb 2021

/20/621782275/the-refugees-that-the-world-barely-pays-attention-to. 80.Ioane Teitiota quoted in Tim McDonald, “The Man Who Would Be the First Climate Change Refugee,” BBC News, November 5, 2015, www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34674374. Chapter 4 1.Perla Trevizo, “Tribes Seek to Join Immigration Reform Debate,” Arizona

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.brookings.edu/research/the-climate-crisis-migration-and-refugees/. 46.“Defence Chief Sounds Warning on Surge of Climate Change Refugees,” SBS News, July 15, 2019, www.sbs.com.au/news/defence-chief-sounds-warning-on-surge-of-climate-change-refugees. 47.UN High Commissioner for Refugees, “UNHCR Chief Filippo Grandi Calls On Australia to End Harmful

The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move

by Sonia Shah

considered the idea Charlotte Edmond, “5 Places Relocating People Because of Climate Change,” World Economic Forum, June 29, 2017; Charles Anderson, “New Zealand Considers Creating Climate Change Refugee Visas,” Guardian, October 31, 2017. do not qualify Karen Musalo, “Systematic Plan to Narrow Humanitarian Protection: A New Era of US Asylum Policy,” 15th Annual

Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World

by Jamie Bartlett  · 12 Jun 2017  · 390pp  · 109,870 words

, as will food shortages and drought. Thousands of animal and plant species will become extinct. By 2050 as many as 250 million people could be climate-change refugees.3 According to Nature magazine, we’re rushing toward some awful mass extinction by 2200.4 While unanimous consensus is impossible, the vast majority of

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by the low turnout. As we trudged closer to the ridge of the hill, I was thinking about those statistics: three feet higher, 250 million climate-change refugees, and ‘mass extinction’. Why aren’t there more of us? All radical groups ask themselves how to go from a small band of motivated believers

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? Or if, as predicted by the United Nations, by 2050 the population hits 10 billion, half of them facing extreme water shortages, and 250 million climate-change refugees are on the move looking for habitable places to live?4 If, as a growing number of scientists now believe, breakthroughs in gerontology mean life

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

by Jake Bittle  · 21 Feb 2023  · 296pp  · 118,126 words

the case of Ioane Teitiota, a man from the sinking island nation of Kiribati who had applied for asylum in New Zealand, and found that climate change refugees cannot be returned to their country of origin; its earlier compact on refugees has affirmed the rights of internal and international migrants to shelter and

Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing

by Andrew Ross  · 25 Oct 2021  · 301pp  · 90,276 words

is projected to be complete. Even if it is not a perfect sanctuary, North Ranch might still serve as a destination for Floridians displaced by climate change. Refugees, wherever they are, seldom move very far from their homes, even when the odds on their return are low. Affluent residents of South Florida’s

Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital

by Kimberly Clausing  · 4 Mar 2019  · 555pp  · 80,635 words

slow. A retreat from globalization also risks pitting nations against each other, making it more difficult to solve the problems that face humanity, such as climate change, refugees, world poverty, and international security. After World War II, world leaders worked to learn the lessons of two world wars and the Great Depression. They

The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future

by Laurence C. Smith  · 22 Sep 2010  · 421pp  · 120,332 words

need to be relocated farther inland. But even in coastal towns, nearly everyone I meet bristles at the notion of being cast as a hapless climate-change refugee. Even as they express frustration at having their lives damaged by people living thousands of miles away—and think it only fair that those damages

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

by Jeff Goodell  · 23 Oct 2017  · 292pp  · 92,588 words

, February 14, 2014. 26. “You can drastically…”: Quoted in Michael Gerrard. “America Is the Worst Polluter in the History of the World. We Should Let Climate Change Refugees Resettle Here.” Washington Post, June 25, 2015. 27. Gerrard argues: Ibid. 28. Runit Dome: Michael Gerrard. “A Pacific Isle, Radioactive and Forgotten.” New York Times

Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today

by Jane McGonigal  · 22 Mar 2022  · 420pp  · 135,569 words

-borders; Ben Ehrenreich, “Open Borders Must Be Part of Any Response to the Climate Crisis,” Nation, June 6, 2019, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/climate-change-refugees-open-borders/. 8 Adrian Raftery, “The Dip in the US Birthrate Isn’t a Crisis, but the Fall in Immigration May Be,” Conversation, June 21

Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

by Mark Hertsgaard  · 15 Jan 2011  · 326pp  · 48,727 words

secretary-general said he was especially concerned about the migrations all of this extreme weather had triggered. Calling the millions of people on the move "climate change refugees," he said they presented a huge humanitarian challenge. They also threatened international security, he said, a diplomat's way of warning that they could cause

Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made

by Gaia Vince  · 19 Oct 2014  · 505pp  · 147,916 words

The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us

by Diane Ackerman  · 9 Sep 2014  · 380pp  · 104,841 words

A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth

by Chris Smaje  · 14 Aug 2020  · 375pp  · 105,586 words

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

by Simon Winchester  · 19 Jan 2021  · 486pp  · 139,713 words

Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change

by George Marshall  · 18 Aug 2014  · 298pp  · 85,386 words

The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

by Tim Flannery  · 10 Jan 2001  · 427pp  · 111,965 words