Reader’s Corner

The journalists and photographers of Collectiv Argos spent four years documenting the effects of climate change on the people and environments of nine places around the world, and their marvelous result is this book. From Alaska to Lake Chad, Louisiana to the Maldives, this book gathers photos and stories of how changing climate affects individuals, societies, and the land.

The publisher’s description of the book reads in part:

Climate Refugees shows us damage wrought to homes and livelihoods by rapid warming near the Arctic; rising sea levels that threaten the island nations of Tuvulu, the Maldives, and Halligen; farmers displaced by the desert’s advance in Chad and China; floods that wash away life in Bangladesh; and Hurricane Katrina evacuees in shelters far away from their New Orleans neighborhoods. Added to the devastating environmental effect of climate change is the immeasurable and irretrievable loss of ethnic and cultural diversity that occurs when vulnerable local cultures disperse. It is this often forgotten and tragic consequence of global warming that Collectif Argos painstakingly documents.

Climate Refugees
by Collectif Argos
Introductions by Hubert Reeves and Jean Jouzel
MIT Press, paperback