Escaping the Elements: The truth behind Climate Migration

From sea level rise to heatwaves, fires, floods and droughts – climate change is forcing people across the globe from their homes. But where do these people go? Is there such a thing as a climate change refugee? And what's the truth behind a lot of the misleading information about climate change and migration?

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Katrina footage from U.S. Navy & NOAAVisualizations
Refugee camp photo from thekirbster

[meandyouagainstthealgorith]

One can say we shouldn't be using water to grow lettuce in Yuma, Arizona, but when iceberg lettuce costs $5 a head in March people will be blaming the President.

[assemblywizard]

I am not sure that depicting migration as positive because aging countries need it for labour is a good line. Degrowth means also accepting to reduce the population of aging countries instead of focusing of finding cheap labour to keep growing. The immense alienation of being an immigrant is also not considered here.

[ebattleon]

But it not ever a win for the poorer nation as they lose their 'best and brightest' and those 'remittances ' never cover the cost education and lost productivity.

[spin]

I live in south Louisiana. 105 degree days sustained for months. High humidity, it's BRUTAL. I'm going to be a migrant at some point.

[jeanf]

The issue is not the displacement of humans, but that a lot of costly infrastructures those humans depend on will be left behind, lost to the sea, floods, fires, desertification, overly frequent wet bulb events ... and more indirectly wars.

[mrpablomx]

It’s one thing of YOUR HOUSE burns down… it’s another if YOUR ENTIRE COUNTRY is burning. My house: yes, I will return… my country: no, I’m not.

[rayalexander]

The truth is there will be a mass exodus as war, famine and climate weather events push (mostly women and children) to other areas. The IPCC models are based on Antartica being a solid and constant mass of ice. This is now disputed due to warming oceans turning Antartica into something akin to ice-cubes with a faster melt time.

[SaulOhio]

If none of this happens by 2050, will you admit you were wrong? Because none of the people predicting environmental disasters have ever admitted they were wrong since the 1960's. Maybe long before.

[rosesleeps]

My family and I migrated to a more northern US state (cool summers and snowey winters) after languishing in the southern heat for far too long. Best decision of my life. I didnt realize that there was immigration fearmongering using the very real effect of climate change. Everyone deserves to live in a safer environment. Thank you for such an imformaning and compassionate video.

[FAS]

Immigration is almost always economically beneficial, especially in the UK with an ageing population and declining workforce. But I doubt that many people in the UK are aware that any of us could be forced to move by climate change during this century. That may include many of those currently living in flood risk areas, but there may also be unexpected consequences related to extreme weather events and changes in agricultural production, and factors of which we are currently unaware.

[notinterested]

Majority of desertification caused by following hummus book.

[stevenwreyford]

The Elephant in the room you are dancing around is most migration can be directly attributed to globalization and poor governance - not climate change. The countries in South America, Africa and Asia are collapsing because of off the scale corruption and incompetence at all levels of government.

[appelmoes]

I think we have seen that not enough privilige won't be stopping people to move. people are willing to do anything to escape horrible conditions

[mkst]

Even if a tenth of 1 billion people migrate out of their own countries that’s still more than happened in both world wars.

[Naturalook]

We're talking about the end of humanity, and everyone's gotta be a goofball about it? I always wonder if that happy face approach isn't part of the reason nobody is responding. I mean, you don't see Greta going that way, and she motivated people to action like nobody else. Al Gore always thinks he has to be so positive, and so do most all the rest of the climate activists. Mass media picks up only on the positive spinners, but that's cause they don't really give a damn, except about ratings... do you just think you can't alienate people, or what... My English lit teacher always taught to write to a preordained pattern of bring it around to closure... but, what's the point in that. ....maybe I'm just wrong, and smiling faces brings people in. Mind you, I'm not looking for stoic doom and gloom, but how about straight faced facts? Just wondering your thoughts here?

[tituszban]

I kind of feel like the fire metaphor is not helping to get the point across, in an otherwise really strong video.

[heronimousbrapson]

Unfortunately "climate justice" can take the form such as what is currently happening in Norway, where a group of Sami are actively demanding that a working wind farm be dismantled as it interferes with the reindeer herding activities of about six families. This would be devastating to Norway's efforts at decarbonization of the electricity sector. Greta Thunberg is supporting them in their efforts, by the way.

[martiansoon]

Remember also that climate change is one real factor that makes people poorer. Heatwave that last decades (ie. In Colorado river basin, Equador, Spain, Africa, ...), causes droughts, no water for your crops, everything that you buy, specially food and water, costs more, even local factories are shutdown due to lack of water, there are no jobs in the area, ... And then comes the final blow as an extreme event like wildfire or flood. After your house is gone, your wealth most likely drops near zero.

You have become poor because of climate change and now climate extreme may even take your and your family's life. In this situation your are really thinking leaving this place that you once called home. Those who have least ties to that place and are most capable (often young people) will likely become climate refugees.

Some of these events would not have happened (like once in 1000 or 10000 years) without manmade climate change. And all of them are boosted with manmade climate change.

[rapauli]

Hundreds of millions... that is, of those who survive the disaster. And among the survivors are those who have sufficient resources to endure and then maybe start to migrate. And of the migrants - how many can swim, can find water, food and have the capacity to migrate. How many can escape predators?

[totoroben]

3:43 I think your example is too detached from the what I would consider an ideal example of a climate migrant. If your climate changes in a way that you cannot grow food, or there isn't enough water to drink, and it can be proven that this is due to climate change, you don't need to put another layer of socio-economic conditions on top of this, because in reality that would be the root cause of their problem, and they would thusly be a climate migrant if they chose to move somewhere with food and water in which they can survive.