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“Climate Refugees”
The Enormous Worldwide Consequences
of Climate Change and the Refugee Crisis
Mr. Nash poses a basic question: what will become of the millions of people whose lack of access to food and clean water leads them to take increasingly desperate measures? What type of strains will huge migration put on resources in more developed countries? Will this dislocation eventually pose a threat to Americans’ national security? How much is America’s political agenda in other nations and our disproportionate use of resources causing a refugee crisis?
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. The Pentagon now considers climate change a national security risk and the phrase “climate wars” is being talked about in war-rooms. 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 the changing climate is already creating humanitarian disasters and is leading inevitably lead to worldwide political instability.