Climate Change is Driving Migration. Could Smarter Ag Help?

How to Save a Planet

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News, Society & Culture, Science

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In recent years more and more people from Central America have tried to emigrate north to Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Many leave home not because they want to, but because they have to: Droughts, brought on by climate change, have forced many to choose between staying home – and risking starvation – or migrating. But a different way of farming could change that calculus. We look at how climate change is driving immigration, and how climate smart agriculture could help families stay on their land. Learn more about the work that Catholic Relief Services is doing on climate smart ag. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to How to Save a Planet.
0:05.8	I'm Junae Morris, an intern on the show, and this is the show about what we need to do to address most popular and most important episodes from last summer.
0:30.3	The increasing number of people coming from Central America to the U.S. through Mexico is often
0:36.0	covered in the news as an immigration issue, but actually,
0:39.9	it's a climate issue. More frequent droughts are wreaking havoc on a region that relies heavily
0:45.2	on agriculture, and it's forcing people to move. But there are organizations trying to reimagine
0:52.8	how to grow crops in this new climate reality through a method
0:57.0	they call water smart ag. Here's Alex with Moore. Hey, everyone, it's just me today. My normal co-host,
1:05.3	Dr. Ianna Elizabeth Johnson, is off this week, but she was part of an interview that we're going to
1:10.5	be featuring in this episode. So you do part of an interview that we're going to be featuring
1:10.9	in this episode,
1:11.9	so you do get to hear her voice.
1:14.3	So for years now,
1:16.1	we've been hearing a lot about immigration.
1:18.9	The drama unfolding south of the border tonight.
1:21.6	Another caravan of migrants, this time about 2000.
1:24.0	The migrants are quickly discovering
1:25.6	they may not be welcome in either
1:27.3	the United States or Mexico.
1:29.3	These people crossed into Mexico illegally, they were met with riot police and waves of tear gas.
1:34.4	These states and many people in the United States who look at this as an invasion.
1:38.3	Calling it a quote, national emergency, vowing to send in the U.S. military.
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