by Deborah Phelan | Sep 8, 2022 | 2050, Climate Change, Real Life Story
I used to write a lot about climate change. Until I didn’t anymore. And that happened when I began to experience intense grief and fear over what our future looks like. I think that happened in conjunction with the 2015 Paris Agreement, which, while lauded now by...
by Deborah Phelan | Aug 25, 2022 | Climate Change, Displacement and Migration, Extreme Weather
When midnight strikes on New Year’s Day of 2050, there will be little cause for celebration. There will, of course, be the usual toasts with fine wines in the climate-controlled compounds of the wealthy few. But for most of humanity, it’ll just be another day of...
by Deborah Phelan | Aug 25, 2022 | Climate Change, Displacement and Migration
In the next 30 years, according to the UN International Organization for migration, we can expect up to 1.5 billion environmental migrants, raising the question of how our world can change to accommodate a population that will move north to already challenged cities....
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 15, 2021 | Biodiversity, Climate Change
Any response to climate change that fails to take into account the loss of biodiversity is fatally flawed, according to a report released last week by a team of international scientists. The report represents the findings of a “four-day virtual workshop to examine the...
by Deborah Phelan | Jun 15, 2021 | Climate Change, Displacement and Migration
In 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) noted that the greatest single impact of climate change could be on human migration—with millions of people displaced by shoreline erosion, coastal flooding, and agricultural disruption. Since then various...
