#climaterefugees — Public Fediverse posts

New paper:
“Not Your Climate Refugees”: A Maldivian Perspective on Migration and Adaptation
Free to access https://doi.org/10.24043/001c.159184

#Climigration #ClimateRefugees #ClimateMigrants #EnvironmentalRefugees #EnvironmentalMigrants #ClimateChange #ClimateMigration #ForcedMigration #Climate #Mobility #ClimateMobility #Maldives #IslandStudies #Migration #Adaptation #ClimateChangeAdaptation

Where are the public shelters from fire, heat, smoke and floods?

Our relentless combustion of fossil fuels and a government hell-bent on logging native forests will set people and wildlife up having to deal with fires, smoke, heat and floods increasingly.

Where are the cooling centers, heat shelters, fire shelters, smoke shelters?

Safer Air Center activated due to poor air quality
https://my.spokanecity.org/news/releases/2023/08/19/safer-air-center-activated-due-to-poor-air-quality/

Cooling Centers by State, Emergency Preparedness and Response: Extreme Heat
https://nchh.org/information-and-evidence/learn-about-healthy-housing/emergencies/extreme-heat/cooling-centers-by-state/

Life at 50 degrees
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/ckx7gv5qm3et

#ClimateRefugees #ClimateEmergency #NSW #deforestation #bushfires #smoke #air #pollution #Emergency #Preparedness #PublicShelters #climate #shelter #governance #FossilFuels #risks #DisasterResilience

We need more SERIOUS discussion of how we are going to cope in a humane way with BILLIONS of #ClimateRefugees over the next decades. Much of the world is about to become #uninhabitable. I used to be an advocate for #OpenBorders, but that is not a practical answer when considering Billions forced from their homes.