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How to Save a Planet

Like The Monarch, Human Migrations During Climate Change

How to Save a Planet

Gimlet

Science, News, Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Human migration is nothing new, but the scale at which people will need to relocate due to climate change will be different than ever before. A World Bank report estimates that over the next thirty years, 143 million people will be displaced within three of the most vulnerable regions alone: sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. To handle such shifts in population, our governments and immigration systems will have to evolve. This challenge, and the stakes, are illustrated beautifully in the essay we’re featuring this week. “Like the Monarch,” written by The New Yorker staff writer Sarah Stillman, explores the complex intersections between the climate crisis and human migration. It is read by actor, producer, director, and activist America Ferrera. Sarah Stillman’s essay, along with 40 other essays appear in the anthology co-edited by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson called All We can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. To find out more about the book, each of the contributors, and the nonprofit the co-editors founded to carry forward the book’s mission, check out allwecansave.earth. Also, we put together a playlist to go with the anthology – each essayist and poet picked a song to go with their writing. Check it out! Featuring: Sarah Stillman, America Ferrera Calls to action: Keen for more of Sarah Stillman’s writing? Check out her recent piece, When Climate Change and Xenophobia Collide Craving more wisdom from women climate leaders? Pick up a copy and dive into the anthology All We can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis – now out in paperback! Want to read this anthology with your climate squad/book club? Here’s a great facilitation guide for reading circles Curious what’s next from the All We Can Save crew? Learn more about the new non-profit, The All We can Save Project Eager for more from the audiobook? Listen to: If Miami Will Be Underwater, Why is Construction Booming? (here on HTSAP) and Healing the Soil, Healing Ourselves featured on A Matter of Degrees podcast. Or purchase the full shebang! Seeking a soundtrack? Check out the playlist featuring songs chosen by each essayist and poet to accompany their writing Check out our Calls to Action archive for all of the actions we've recommended on the show. Send us your ideas or feedback with our Listener Mail Form. Sign up for our newsletter here. And follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to How to Save a Planet.

0:03.4

I'm Dr. Iyana Elizabeth Johnson and I'm Alex Bloomberg and this is the show about what

0:08.4

we need to do to address the climate crisis and how to make those things happen.

0:24.2

This is a big week.

0:25.4

It is.

0:26.4

Well, I mean, maybe not for everyone, but for me.

0:29.6

It's a big week in lovingly crafted anthologies, climate related anthologies coming out in

0:37.0

paperback.

0:38.0

That's a perfect description of what this week is.

0:43.3

All we can save, colon, truth, courage and solutions for the climate crisis is out in paper

0:50.2

back as of July 20th.

0:53.1

So yeah, another chance to spread the word far and wide about the wisdom of the 40 plus

0:59.6

SAS 2 contributed to this collection that you co-edited.

1:03.4

That I co-edited with, oh, my God, introducing a mystery third host, Dr. Catherine K. Wilkinson.

1:12.1

They had me back.

1:16.0

Thanks for joining us because this week in celebration

1:20.0

of this paperback publication, we're sharing an essay from the audiobook.

1:24.3

And in fact, maybe I'll let you guys just introduce the episode since you're the editors

1:28.6

of the book.

1:29.6

I feel equipped to do that.

1:30.6

Yeah.

1:31.6

We can take it from here.

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