Climate Refugees: New Social Movements, New Responsibilities of Solidarity

By Pierre Rousset This article was originally prepared as a report to the leadership of the Fourth International.
As with many other movements involved in solidarity with victims of humanitarian disasters, we had to take more centrally into account the breadth of natural disasters (whether or not of human origin) after the tsunami which struck in the Indian Ocean in 2004. The following year, New Orleans in the USA was devastated by hurricane Katrina; then northern Pakistan and Kashmir by an earthquake.
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