All of the debates in the media about the Syrian refugees recently reminded me of a documentary that came out a few years ago 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. I am worried that these refugees will not have any country to turn to, similar to these Syrian Refugees. In both cases there is little the refugees have done to cause the issues they now face, but they are stuck dealing with the consequences. With a potential for hundreds of thousands if not millions of climate change refugees coming in the next century, a global plan to deal with them is needed.

This is an incredibly interesting and inspiring documentary, and I encourage you all to check it out.