In this blog, originally published as an Environment and History ‘Snapshot’ in August 2024, Dimitrios Bormpoudakis uses the case of forced exile in Greek islands to illustrate how ecologies of displacement matter in adapting to climate change. ‘Narratives of the [past] matter in climate adaptation’.[1] Following this cue, I argue that environmental histories about displacement matter … More ‘THE LIGHT OF DAY WAS OUR COMRADE’: ECOLOGIES OF FORCED DISPLACEMENT AND THE CHALLENGE OF UNFAMILIAR ENVIRONMENTS