Climate Change Is Forcing Millions of People to Move

Environmental change has always motivated human migration. However, in our age of climate change, natural disasters—floods, hurricanes, drought, wildfires, crop failure—are making migration less an option, and more an imperative for survival. Climate migration disproportionately affects developing countries in the Global South. In the United States too, climate migration has become increasingly prevalent due to hurricanes, drought, and catastrophic wildfires. On Earth Day 2022, we examine the human factor in climate change and consider how to prepare for mass climate migration in the future. With special guest Dr. Gregory White, Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of Government at Smith College.

Each episode of The Sweaty Penguin invites you to explore one climate change issue in depth, guided by an expert in the field. The goal? To make environmental issues less politicized and more fun, so that people of any political ideology or interest level can learn, engage, and find common ground.

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Major funding for Peril and Promise is provided by Dr. P. Roy Vagelos and Diana T. Vagelos with additional funding from Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, and the Estate of Worthington Mayo-Smith.