Hot to trot: the up sides of climate migration
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Mass movements of people expected as climate change progresses are often depicted as catastrophes-in-waiting. We visit Niger, where that shift has begun, finding there is good news amid the bad. We examine the spate of video games depicting Ukraine’s live theatre of war (11:32). And the end of Indiana Jones’s run prompts a reflection on what made his adventures so compelling (17:12).
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| 0:00.0 | Financial markets are more complex than ever. That's why Goldman Sachs is breaking down the key factors driving the economy each week. |
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| 0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:23.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:31.0 | Games about war are nothing new. Just yesterday we were talking about the famed franchise Call of Duty. |
| 0:39.0 | We dig into something novel, the spate of games depicting a live theater of war in Ukraine, |
| 0:45.0 | complete with washing machines stolen by Russians. |
| 0:49.0 | And it would seem it's the end of the road for Indiana Jones. |
| 0:53.0 | The final film is out this week. |
| 0:56.0 | What is it that made this series so compelling? Was it the edge of your seat action scenes, the wise cracks? |
| 1:02.0 | Our culture editor reckons it was something simpler. |
| 1:10.0 | First up though. |
| 1:13.0 | As climate change raises temperatures, shifts water levels and wreaks unpredictable havoc around the world, |
| 1:27.0 | a lot of people are going to have to move. |
| 1:30.0 | Much of that movement will be from climate stressed areas to perceived safer spots within countries. |
| 1:37.0 | By 2050 the World Bank reckons between 50 million and 216 million people will have to make these kinds of moves. |
| 1:45.0 | A lot of policies are focused on keeping people in place, adapting to the future climate impacts where they are. |
| 1:52.0 | But sometimes moving is actually better. |
| 2:08.0 | What you're hearing the Saudi chaotic sounds is from a visit to the home of a man named Gansou Seni Ali. |
| 2:17.0 | He's the chief of a group of herders from rural Niger. |
| 2:22.0 | Kidly salmon is our West Africa correspondent. |
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