Deslocados ambientais: desafios para a construção de uma identidade adequada

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the situation of people who are forcibly displaced from their homeland by the effects of climate change and environmental degradation, largely caused by human action, as a result of the development of the risk society, causing a scenario of social instability, legal insecurity and uncertainty. Considered one of the greatest crises of humanity, environmental displacement is a reflection of how humans coexist and intervene in nature, exploiting its natural resources as if they were unlimited, under the optics of an economic and social development that exploits beyond the capacity of nature to regenerate. Such practice has become unsustainable and, as a consequence, we have observed the most diverse environmental disasters possible, ranging from global warming, soil desertification, warming seas, coral reefs, rising sea levels, among others, sparking an international alert for the irreversibility of the environment, resulting in the vulnerability of countless people. Our way of life on earth is compromising the safety, survival, and rights of thousands of people, groups, and even countries that run the risk of no longer existing. Therefore, such reflection is urgent, considering that the number of environmentally displaced people is growing day by day and in the face of this reality we have no consensus in the international order capable of recognizing this new category of people as a subject of rights, there are no regulatory legal instruments able to support the environmentally displaced or even protective measures capable of addressing the climate crisis, recovering the world we live in so that everyone has a chance of life.