Climate Change Challenge for Charity Organizations

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Climate Change Challenge for Charity
Organizations
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• Climate change and the associated disasters leave
  no choice numerous people, forcing them to leave
  their homes and even their countries. Disasters
  often strike the poorest, and all this is a real
  challenge for charity organizations. When it
  comes to climate change, denial often creates
  disputes. American writer Carrie Norgaard
  received many threatening e-mails after she
  published the book "Living in Denial Climate
  Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life".

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• Carrie doesn't deal with those few who deny that
  people cause climate changes. Rather, what she is
  interested in is why the majority of people in
  industrial countries, although they don't dispute
  the scientific findings about climate change,
  still dont do anything in their everyday life to
  contribute through local community service to the
  fight against it, even though their contributions
  would be very important.

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• "How can this be? We know so much about urgency
  of this problem. But if we look around ourselves
  we get the idea that no one knows anything about
  it, or that no one cares," said Norgaard in an
  interview by the newspaper Deutsche Welle.

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• Changes are visible, but there is no reaction
  from international organizations, charities, or
  other even government organizations.

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• Carrie spent ten months in a municipality in the
  north of Norway. This is a country where
  everybody reads the daily newspapers, people are
  politically active, and there is no doubt about
  climate change. She spent one very warm winter
  there, when the first snow arrived two months
  later than usual, which affected both agriculture
  and tourism.

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• Despite this, she didn't notice any debate about
  the climate socially or politically. Despite the
  fact that the media reported the relationship
  between the warm winter and global heating, there
  was no reaction.

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• Millions of people around the world are refugees.
  They have fled war and violence, political
  prosecution, or poverty and hunger. The number of
  people who have to leave their homes due to
  natural disasters grows every year. Walter Kälin,
  a Swiss expert on state law, estimates that in
  from 2008 to 2011, there were 144 million
  refugees from various causes.

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• That would be 29 million people per year! "80 of
  these refugees flee in the context of events
  related to climate changes," said Kälin, who
  supports the Nansen Initiative, one of the
  nonprofit charities which seek the
  acknowledgement of climate refugees within the
  Geneva Convention.

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• "We are speaking about reality here, not about
  something that might happen in the future," said
  Kälin.

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• International volunteer organizations and
  humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross
  are fighting to increase awareness and solve the
  issues that these refugees face. However, the
  need for humanitarian aid has grown tremendously
  in the past few years. Climate change threatens
  the basic living conditions of people in third
  world countries.

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