ABSTRACT
A power perspective on global distribution of resources, such as the combustion of fossil fuels and the share of the atmospheric sink claimed by different categories of people, is essential to understand why the victims are left to fend for themselves. The climate refugees is, paradoxically, a formula developed by the United Nation's own Environment Programme, which in 1985 introduced the term "environmental refugees". It is defined as those people who have been forced to leave their traditional habitat, temporarily or permanently, because of a marked environment that had jeopardized their existence. With the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere standing above 400 parts per million, climate change is on the verge of running amok. A changing climate will see rising sea levels, more precipitation in some regions and less in others; there will be more frequent storms and powerful hurricanes, shortages of drinking water and food prices on the rise.
