Climate Change Challenge for Charity Organizations

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".

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 don’t 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.

"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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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