How Climate Change Could Cause Massive Global Migration

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🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In the next 50 years, more than a million climate migrants could come to the United States from Central America if nothing is done to curb carbon emissions. That’s according to a new model that predicts where refugees from regions decimated by decreased crop productivity, water shortages and rising sea levels may move. The model, developed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, finds that climate change will likely cause “the greatest wave of global migration the world has seen.” Forum talks with ProPublica environmental reporter Abrahm Lustgarten about future climate migration and the experiences of those who have already left their homes because of the changes caused by a warming planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.8	Climate change will make more parts of the world uninhabitable, leading to a massive wave of human
1:24.5	migration. ProPublica and the New York Times magazine have developed a model showing how people are likely to be affected, focusing first on Central America, and how people could move across international borders to escape extreme weather and hunger. Tens of millions of people are expected to make their way to the U.S. by 2070. We learn what their models show the impact will be,
1:47.0	depending on our environmental and immigration policy.
1:50.6	And we're joined by Abram Lustgarten.
1:52.7	He's senior environmental reporter for ProPublica.
1:55.6	Abram Lustgarten, thank you so much for joining us.
1:58.7	I thank you for having me.
2:00.4	So when we talk about the world becoming
2:03.0	more uninhabitable, what do you mean by this? By how much? Well, a recent study published in
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