Growing number of climate refugees

Rising seas and increasingly violent
storms have wreaked havoc
on small island nations like Tuvalu.

Climate refugees are those displaced from their homes due to climate change-induced disasters such as flooding or drought, as well as slow-creeping crises such as sea level rise.

There are a growing number of communities that are on the “frontlines of climate change,” including Native Alaskans and the low-lying island nations of Oceania. These communities are already facing the impacts of climate change, and their unique locations and more traditional livelihoods make them particularly vulnerable to the consequences of a warming world.

Photographer and filmmaker Vlad Sokhin partnered with Seeker to produce the video to document how rising seas and increasingly violent storms have already decimated Pacific island communities like Tuvalu.

Read the EcoWatch story - “Meet the World’s First Climate Refugees.”

(Most people have an image of what, who and why someone is asylum seeker, but soon that will have to be rejigged with a new criteria for a new flood of people who will be “climate refugees”. Well, that is what we are presently watching in Europe as people flood into the continent from places like Syria, who are wrongly described as war refugees – true, Syria is a desperate and violent place, but war from which people want to escape arose from food shortages, brought on by drought, worsened by climate change and so if we care to look “up river” we will see that those thousands of despairing people are “climate refugees” – Robert McLean).