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DESCRIPTION:\nFilm evenings begin with potluck refreshments and social hour at  6:30 
 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after the 
 film.\n\nCLIMATE REFUGEES\nby Michael Nash\n\nThere is a new phenomenon in 
 the global arena called “Climate Refugees.”  A climate refugee is a 
 person displaced by climatically induced environmental disasters.  Such 
 disasters result from incremental and rapid ecological change, resulting in 
 increased droughts, desertification, sea level rise, and the more frequent 
 occurrence of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, cyclones, fires, 
 mass flooding, and tornadoes.  All this is causing mass global migration 
 and border conflicts.  For the first time, the Pentagon now considers 
 climate change a national security risk and the term climate wars is being 
 talked about in war-room like environments in Washington D.C.\n\nTo make 
 his film, filmmaker Michael Nash visited nearly 50 countries in about 18 
 months to interview politicians, scientists, health workers, and victims of 
 floods, cyclones, hurricanes, and droughts.  His film shows how people all 
 around the world are already grappling with the social, economic, and 
 environmental effects of climate change.  His conclusion is that major 
 changes in climate are causing vast numbers of people to abandon their 
 jobs, homes, and countries to seek better lives elsewhere, or simply to 
 survive.  He 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?  Whatever is causing the 
 climate to change, people still have to deal with islands going under water 
 and people running out of food.  The film shows how our new green values of 
 sustainability are as economic and social as they are environmental.  And 
 Michael Nash also interviews prominent leaders from the U.S. and elsewhere 
 to point out that solutions — particularly in energy transformations — 
 are possible and within our reach.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the 
 corner at  411  28th  Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/01/03/18704129.php
SUMMARY:Climate Refugees
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/01/03/18704129.php
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