by Judith Curry This post is motivated by the article in the
Asian Correspondent by Gavin Atkins entitled “What happened to
the climate refugees?” The Climate Refugee Story The story of
climate refugees is becoming the “human face” of climate change.
A book entitled “Climate Refugees” by Collectif Argos, is
summarized by amazon.com: “People of the Arctic, the Sundarbans,
the Maldives, the Longbaoshan, the Louisiana Gulf Coast, Tuvalu,
Lake Chad, and the Himalayas comprise the nine communities
Collectif Argos visited with pen and camera to produce, in 2007,
the sad and haunting Climate Refugees, recently translated and
published in English. While the global pool of climate
literature is crowded and it’s becoming increasingly difficult
to advance the climate story, this book does so by documenting
firsthand the day-to-day experience of people being challenged
by weather conditions so extreme, they are simply forced to
quit, pull up roots, and move to higher ground. Their remote and
rugged communities, all strug