Last weekend, I attended the showing of Sun Come Up, a short film about the impacts of climate change on a small community living on an island. They are forced to abandoned their homeland of many years in search of a new place to live as rising sea levels threaten their livelihood. It was striking to me that we have already reached a point where people are forced to relocate as refugees due to the harsh environmental impacts of climate change. This relocation, however, is not only stressful from a perspective of uncertainty but also due to the trauma from the civil war; the villagers are unsure if these new places will accept them. As such, it is clear to see that climate change is not only making physical impacts on the world around us but also forcing many humans around the world into stressful situations that they would otherwise not be in.
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Endless possibilities
This is really sad to hear and reminded me of something similar my teacher had told me a few years back that sea levels were rising quickly to the point that some people living in big cities (such as New York City) might be forced to evacuate if the sea levels rise a lot (since Manhattan, for example, is only a few inches above sea level).