Climate change increasingly threatens communities all over the world. News of fires, floods and coastal erosion devastating lives and livelihoods seems almost constant.
The latest fires in Queensland and NSW mark the start of the earliest bushfire season the states have ever seen. What happens when climate change causes extreme events to become chronic, potentially rendering some communities unviable? This question is fuelling a new strand of global research focused on "climigration". Climigration is the planned relocation of entire communities to new locations further from harm. And it has already begun. It takes a lot to convince a community to move. But extreme events disrupt communities socially, economically and physically. Buildings and infrastructure are damaged, as are community cohesion and morale. Lives may be lost; many others are changed forever. When extreme events disrupt communities, responses usually occur in one of two ways. Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-16/radical-choice-to-confront-climate-change/11515456
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
March 2023
Categories |