VERO BEACH — Named one of 10 best green documentaries by Sundance Film Festival, “Climate Refugees” is the first feature film to explore the global human impact of climate change.
On Sunday, Jan. 13, at 7 p.m., it will be shown at the community-wide, nondenominational Social Justice Film Series, now in its seventh year, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Vero Beach.
The series is free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations are required, and a comment and discussion period will follow the screening.
Nearly four years in the making, “Climate Refugees” is a 2010 documentary film, produced and directed by Michael Nash, formerly of Fort Pierce. The film uncovers the unbelievable plight of people around the world displaced by climatically induced environmental disasters.
The documentary illuminates for the first time the human face of climate change as civilization now finds itself facing the confluence of overpopulation, lack of resources, and a changing climate.
The film features several of the 25 million climate refugees now on the run, along with a variety of leading scientists, relief workers, security consultants, and major political figures, including John Kerry and Newt Gingrich.
Whether human-caused or a product of nature, the changing climate is already creating humanitarian disasters and will inevitably lead to worldwide political instability.
“Climate Refugees” has been screened by Prime Ministers, Presidents, The Pentagon, United Nations, Davos, U.S. Embassies, film festivals, universities, and churches around the world. According to the U.N., there are already more environmental refugees in the world than political or religious refugees.
The Fair Trade Corner will be open both before and after the film.
The UU Fellowship is handicapped-accessible with easy parking, located at 1590 27th Ave. on the southeast corner of 27th Ave. and 16th St.
For more information, please call (772) 778-5880.
