P-2: Climate Action

Research

One Refugee is a non-profit organization with deep

connections in our community and a goal to help
refugees thrive in their new home through career
counseling, mentorship, financial aid, and more.
 ◦ The impact of environmental deterioration on the
refugees themselves is intense. Low-quality water
affects the health of large numbers of people, in a
situation where there is a high risk of infectious
diseases multiplying rapidly. Deforestation gradually
environmental forces women and children to walk further for wood,
putting women in danger of physical assault.
impacts Children may have to miss school to help; cooking
time is shortened, and drinking water not boiled.
Refugees may have to sell part of their food rations
in order to obtain the fuel needed to cook the
remainder, contributing to increased levels of
malnutrition.

CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS SUCH AS SEA-LEVEL
RISE ARE ALMOST CERTAIN. WHAT THESE
OUTCOMES MEAN FOR DIFFERENT POPULATIONS,
HOWEVER, IS FAR LESS CERTAIN. CLIMATE
CHANGE IS BOTH A NARRATIVE AND MATERIAL
PHENOMENON. IN SO BEING, UNDERSTANDING
CLIMATE CHANGE REQUIRES BROAD
CONCEPTUALIZATIONS THAT INCORPORATE
MULTIPLE VOICES AND RECOGNIZE THE AGENCY
OF VULNERABLE POPULATIONS.
Climate effect
IN CLIMATE CHANGE DISCOURSE, CLIMATE
MOBILITY IS OFTEN CHARACTERIZED AS THE
PRODUCTION OF ‘REFUGEES’, WITH A TENDENCY
TO DISCOUNT LONG HISTORIES OF ORDINARY
MOBILITY AMONG AFFECTED POPULATIONS. THE
CASE OF TUVALU IN THE PACIFIC JUXTAPOSES
MIGRATION AS EVERYDAY PRACTICE WITH
CLIMATE REFUGEE NARRATIVES.
THIS CLIMATE-EXPOSED POPULATION IS BEING
PROBLEMATICALLY POSITIONED TO SPEAK FOR
AN ENTIRE PLANET UNDER THREAT. TUVALUANS
ARE BEING USED AS THE IMMEDIATE EVIDENCE
OF DISPLACEMENT THAT THE CLIMATE CHANGE
CRISIS NARRATIVE SEEMS TO REQUIRE.
 Sources with Justification
1 2
https://scholar.google.com/scholar http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.libprox
?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C45&as_vis=1 1.slcc.edu:2048/eds/detail/detail?vi
&q=how+refugees+impact+climat d=2&sid=12854110-7bcd-473c-
e+change&oq=how+refugees+imp a60e-
act+climate+c e0d4a95afdb7%40sessionmgr101&b
data=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU
%3d#AN=340756&db=nlebk
3 4
http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.libprox http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.libprox
1.slcc.edu:2048/eds/detail/detail?vi 1.slcc.edu:2048/eds/ebookviewer/e
d=4&sid=12854110-7bcd-473c- book/bmxlYmtfXzE1MDU0MDJf
a60e- X0FO0?sid=12854110-7bcd-473c-
e0d4a95afdb7%40sessionmgr101&b a60e-
data=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU e0d4a95afdb7@sessionmgr101&vid
%3d#AN=1505402&db=e900xww =5&format=EB&rid=1
 Key Facts for Topic #1
drove a broader conversation about
anthropogenic global warming in
important ways, and they were
important enough in their own time to
significantly influence the way we talk
about climate change today. In common
speech, we often describe agents of
social, cultural, or political change as the
people or things that “make history.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the United
States emerged as a world leader in
atmospheric science, and its institutions
began to attract many of the most
prominent scientists dealing with
climate change either as visitors or as
permanent residents
 Key Facts for Topic #2

Climate Change History is a series of starting points, worm-holes into historical

worlds both familiar and strange.

here are important lessons in these yet undiscovered historical connections that can
help shape the way we think not only about global warming’s past, but also about
its present and its future.

historians of global warming, the early history of climate science presents a

dilemma.
 Key Facts for Topic #3
And yet, even the few scientists
familiar with Calendar's work in
1938 did not take it very seriously,
and Calendar, like his CO2 theory
of climate, remained relatively
obscure for most of his lifetime.
In fact, within the scientific com-
munity, the meaning of Reveille
and Seuss's muddled paper itself
did not become clear until Bert
Bolin and Erik Eriksson revisited
its conclusions in a 1959 paper.
From very early on in this story,
scientists understood that
increased atmospheric CO2
presented a unique and uniquely
challenging type of environmental
threat, certainly different in scale,
but also different in kind from
mainstream issues like air and
water pollution, toxic wastes, or
land use change, which became the
focus of a national environmental
movement in the 1960s.