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Climate Refugees: Directed by Michael P. Nash. With Lester Brown, Mariano Florentino 'Tino' Cuéllar, Yvo de Boer, Paul Ehrlich. Filmmaker Michael Nash investigates mass migration caused by our changing climate.
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- Documentary
- Michael P. Nash
- 2010-01
English. Budget. $1.6 million. Climate Refugees is a 2010 American documentary film, directed and produced by Michael P. Nash. The documentary attempts to cover the human impact of climate change by considering those who could most be affected by it.
- $1.6 million
- Michael P. Nash
- Michael Mollura
- January 29, 2010 (Sundance Film Festival)
In 2024, acclaimed "Climate Refugees" etched its name in history as the sole documentary chosen for inclusion in an arts and humanities lunar time capsule, featuring works from 222 master artists spanning the last 2000 years. On February 22, 2024, Climate Refugees landed on the lunar surface, becoming the first to land on the surface of the moon.
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.
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- 95 min
The documentary illuminates for the first time the human face of climate change as civilization now finds itself facing the confluence of overpopulation, lack of resources and a changing climate. Traveling the world and interviewing several of the 25 million climate refugees now on the run, along with scholars, politicians and the like ...
