ABSTRACT
Extreme weather events aggravated by climate disruption are impacting organizations worldwide. The impacts of climate disruption also run the risk of injuring and killing workers, especially those who work outside. The adverse psycho-social-spiritual impacts of climate disruption go well beyond individuals and organizations to affect communities. Like organizations, communities are social systems — they are composed of people constantly interpreting and interacting with their physical, economic, social, cultural, and political environments. The ways in which climate disruption can cause a community to become trauma-organized is through impacts on the local economy and jobs. As New York experienced as a result of Superstorm Sandy, climate-enhanced fast-moving extreme weather events are already damaging local economies and throwing many people out of work. The negative psycho-social-spiritual reactions to climate impacts won't stop at the city limits. They will affect entire societies. Although communities are affected by forced migration, the impacts affect entire societies.
