Living and Dying in the Climate Apocalypse

When people try to imagine how society might collapse if we carry on as we are with climate change, they sometimes think that the first time we run out of food society will collapse. However societies collapse in much more complex, fascinating ways.

This video is a mixture or using examples of what has previously happened when societies fail or are under pressure with personal attempts to try and make sense of it all.

Sources:
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, Timothy Snyder
I Was Dying of Hunger near Fields of Grain, Ivan Brynza.
Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen

https://twitter.com/PCarterClimate
https://www.theguardian.com/
https://holodomormuseum.org.ua/

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jul/28/water-is-the-real-thing-but-millions-of-mexicans-are-struggling-without-it
https://www.wfp.org/stories/lake-chad-cursed-conflict-and-climate-change
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/dec/01/dhaka-city-climate-refugees-reality
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/19/hunger-in-tigray-pushing-women-and-girls-into-sex-work
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/afghanistans-women-forced-to-sell-their-children-to-feed-starving-families-trtgdcfd
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/angus-rose-hunger-strike-parliament-b2061532.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#Regional_variation
https://www.unhcr.org/uk/news/stories/2021/9/6138fac74/climate-change-fuels-clashes-cameroon-force-thousands-flee.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom#:~:text=When%20World%20War%20II%20began,though%20not%20all%20at%20once.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_in_occupied_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines#cite_note-119

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