Musings, mutterings and bright lights

  What is a climate refugee? January 25, 2020 This is an assignment I did for a MOOCs course run by the University of Melbourne in 2013. It in many ways echoes the present so I want to add it to my blogs. I worked hard but got 95% for my efforts. Getting a graphics to fit from my PDF file was difficult.  What is a climate refugee? Refugees have been traditionally thought of as stateless people fleeing from wars and persecution. Forced Migration is a related term that was used in a recent report by the Environmental Justice Foundation 1  on the impact of climate change in Bangladesh. Indeed this report is a good start to learning about the impacts of global warming on the most vulnerable of communities in the Indian subcontinent. Whether climate refugees or forced migrants we are talking fundamentally about survival, not a better life but almost any life at all, and the likely permanent displacement of people from their homes, communities, and nations due to rising seas. In 1990 the IPC

  Hi XYZ Hope you and yours are well, safe and covid free. XYZ and I are well and have recently become grandparents to a beautiful boy called ............. See attached. Our daughter married her partner of many years so we now have a son-in-law to add to our family. He is a journalist with DW and behind the excellent Planet A series on YouTube. Hope your news is also good.  [Personal paragraph above to start the email variable according to the receiver] I haven’t been idle and am writing about the launching of an important project at www.ecovillagers.live which has been a lot of work, blood, sweat and tears. Indeed it’s the culmination of over 20 years of support for indigenous communities in Brazil suffering due to the impacts of climate change. A short 30 second flyer is attached that summarizes  the project. It is clickable and can take you to the website. The Welcome page explains it all.   The website is rich in content with many links and videos on climate change, includin