#climate refugee

[fakingtranquility]

Re-introduction for a pinned post: (updated June 16, 2026)

Meredith, 29, former state government, former educator @ nonprofit. (Ask me how I feel about 47)

📍Boston, MA, by way of my native SC/WNC

Climate refugee from Hurricane Helene.

Standup comedy at bars and venues in and around Boston. 5 years of standup and I’m finally making it.

Socialist, radicalized by VeggieTales. Episcopalian and big Rt. Rev. (Bishop) Budde fan.

Engineer who’s respecting a period of burnout.

Reading goal: 25 books for 2026.

January: 4 books

February: 2 books

March: 3 books

April: 2 books

May: 3 books simultaneously: not great for my attention span

June: 2 books so far (6/16)

Chronically online, chronically forgetful, chronically ill.

I don’t owe anyone my medical information, but if you’re curious, let’s just say that I wouldn’t be alive if I’d been born even a few years earlier.

[yeswearenature]

Decolonize climate adaptation research

Decolonize climate adaptation research

Climate-forced population displacement is among the greatest human rights issues of our time, presenting unprecedented challenges to communities and the governments responsible for protecting them. Sea level rise, heat, drought, and wildfires will cause people to move, losing homes and places they love, often with no ability to return. Indigenous Peoples have done the least to cause this crisis…

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[stevemaclellan]

What Does It Mean to Be a Climate Refugee?

A recent ruling opens the door to new types of protected status.

In 2012, Teitiota’s visa expired. That’s when he began his journey to become the world’s first formally recognized climate refugee. He applied for refugee status in New Zealand and argued that he would face enormous hardship and imminent death, not unlike a persecuted minority, should he be sent home. His bid was rejected by several New Zealand courts, so he appealed his case until it reached the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which decides whether countries have violated international humanitarian law.

[solarpunks]

(Photos via Upcoming: IDP - 2043 graphic collaboration - Forbidden Planet Blog)

IDP: 2043: A Graphic Novel Hardcover – 18 Jul 2014

A graphic novel in collaboration with the Edinburgh International Book Festival to mark its 30th anniversary, IDP (short for 'internally displaced person or persons') imagines a Scotland 30 years in the future. Six teams of major names in European comics and graphics novels collaborate on a single narrative. Celebrated French graphic novelist and illustrator Barroux, Costa Award short-listed Mary Talbot and artist Kate Charlesworth, 'grandfather of British comics' and co-creator of 2000AD Pat Mills and graphic novelist Hannah Berry, enfant terrible of Scottish letters and author of Trainspotting Irvine Welsh and graphic artist Dan McDaid, graphic novelists Adam Murphy and Will Morris, have been brought together by story editor, crime writer and graphic novelist, Denise Mina. The story follows the catastrophic effects of a small rise in sea levels on the county's heavily populated low lying areas and how society reimagines itself in the face of a huge population shift in a world of scarce resources.

(via IDP: 2043: A Graphic Novel Hardcover – 18 Jul 2014)

[fakingtranquility]

I find myself replacing my Southern vernacular, my natural first voice, with tone neutrality.

I’m no longer fixing to, I am about to or going to, have an identity crisis.

My most native tones feel foreign now and I hear them from tourists, smelling them out like a bloodhound when they’re lost in this unfamiliar land. I stopped last week on Cambridge Street to help a lost woman from Georgia who couldn’t find her way. I didn’t have to hear much of her frustration to know, but there were peaches in her voice.

Of course I helped, she was only a block away from her destination. It frustrated me when I couldn’t switch back to MY voice quickly enough for her to know why I stopped at all.

Camaraderie amongst the displaced, even just for their vacations. I crave a cobbler with the right fruit, fresh from a local tree.

[krisje3]

Sun Melts ICE

Our little Nashville cottage has warmed up. The Pumpkin helped me make vegetable soup. My friend Les delivered a loaf of bread, and we walked across the street to see her majestic ash tree covering her pool; it just missed her porch by a few feet. Another neighbor helped Bob chop up an evergreen that fell on our HVAC. Guess we’ll see if the air conditioning works in a couple of months. We cleaned…

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[asg-stuff]

When we see categories like climate migrant and climate refugee in use today, we should treat them not as innocent descriptors of reality. Instead, they should alert us to the presence of an insidious power whose origins are European. Rather than accept these terms at face value, we might instead ask ourselves: who does the idea of the climate migrant, or climate refugee, really serve? (via Why we should abandon the concept of the 'climate refugee')

See also The Other of Climate Change: Racial Futurism, Migration, Humanism

[tearsofrefugees]

Should people displaced by climate change be considered refugees? | Free Movement

There is no such thing as a "climate refugee" under international law as it stands, but the concept is beginning to gain some ground.