The collapse of the climate system often announces itself with disasters and devastation. A new documentary captures a quieter type of disruption: a family driven to separate by water scarcity.
“It was a little bit eerie how few people were around,” Robinson said, of the Himalayan village of Dhey, which many families left after the rivers ran dry.
Nobody in “When Glaciers Go” uses the terms “climate refugee” or “climate migration.” Instead, the members of the Gurung family, who upended their lives when water in their mountain village became too scarce, talk about boredom, and about missing their kids. The grandparents, Dorjay Chombel and Tashi Gurung, live in the remote village of Dhey, high up in the Himalayan mountains.
The film, directed by Corey Robinson, follows the Chambaleh apple harvest during the fall of 2019. Sangbo scrapes rocks to open and close shallow trenches in the gray clay, operating a laborious irrigation system of canals to water the trees. The fruit piles up—red and shiny, an almost miraculous product to have been pulled from the poor, rocky soil. Sangbo and Lhakpa talk with the others in their coöperative about when to sell the apples and at what price.
The collapse of the climate system often announces itself with disasters and devastation; the Gurung family’s separation is a quieter type of disruption. Even still, Robinson said it was clear that a seismic shift was taking place: “The social dynamic has completely changed, for the people who have stayed there and for the ones who have moved.”
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