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Climate Refugees
89 minutes ■ 2009 ■ USA ■ In Competition
Thursday 9:40p
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Friday 6:40p
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Saturday 3:40p
Director/Screenwriter/Cinematographer: Michael Nash ■ Producers: Michael Nash, Justin
Hogan ■ Executive Producers: Pat McConathy, Stephen Nemeth ■ Editors: Nancy Frazen,
Michael Nash ■ Music/Composer: Michael Mollura ■ Principal Cast: Newt Gingrich, John
Kerry, Nancy Pelosi ■
climaterefugees.com
The human face of climate change. Experts have projected that
within the next five years over 50 million people are going to
have to leave their homes because changes in the world’s
climate will destroy their livelihoods. The U.N. states that more
refugees are now displaced by environmental disasters than by
war, yet not one single international law gives asylum, or even
a helping hand to environmental refugees.
A “climate refugee” is a person displaced by environmental dis-
asters, and this is causing mass migration and border conflicts
around the world. 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. Filmmaker Michael Nash travels the globe from
the rapidly submerging islands of Tuvalu in the South Pacific, to
expanding deserts in China, drought-ridden Sudan, and the
storm ravaged coastlines of Bangladesh and New Orleans, ex-
ploring this issue. [subtitles]
Michael Nash
Director’s Statement
We travelled around the world for two-and-
a-half years documenting the human migra-
tion caused by climatic change, and it’s a
really interesting thing no one’s really look-
ing at. People have always migrated, but
there’s no more available real estate. And now they’re crossing
borders, which is starting to create conflicts.
I would say from my own standpoint is that it’s a really inter-
esting time to be a human being because we’re being faced with
very large decisions. Part of the solution is to prevent this prob-
lem. If you just take America, there’s enough wind power in
North Dakota, Kansas and Texas to power the United States for
a year. The solutions are there, it’s just the choices we have to
make and whether we really want to or not.
Filmography: Fuel, Nebraska
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