Climate Migration: No Longer Just for the Birds

Like the Yellow-Billed Stork that migrates in Africa based on rainfall, more humans are migrating, some permanently abandoning their homes due to environmental circumstances. The world is witnessing an increase in the movement of climate refugees seeking better living conditions, expelled from their homes by factors ranging from rising sea levels and wildfires to droughts and floods. Join Jorden and Kimberly as they reveal where migration is most likely to happen, weigh in on the culpability of GN countries and corporations, and consider how risk might provide the impetus necessary to address climate change.

Episode 17

10/17/2024

Like the Yellow-Billed Stork that migrates in Africa based on rainfall, more humans are migrating, some permanently abandoning their homes due to environmental circumstances. The world is witnessing an increase in the movement of climate refugees seeking better living conditions, expelled from their homes by factors ranging from rising sea levels and wildfires to droughts and floods. Join Jorden and Kimberly as they reveal where migration is most likely to happen, weigh in on the culpability of GN countries and corporations, and consider how risk might provide the impetus necessary to address climate change.

Key Topics Jorden and Kimberly discuss include:

  • Why Jorden is stuck in Canada and Kimberly can’t find a new place to live

  • The top 5 environmental causes for human migration

  • Why ‘climate refugees’ are now ‘climate migrants’, and they’re not just in developing countries

  • Why most climate migrants never even leave their own countries…

  • …but when they do, they’re less likely to be headed to developed countries than seek refuge in neighboring countries.

  • Which countries are most ‘climate secure’ and how this calculation differs from those that promote ‘climate protections’

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The Yellow-Billed Stork migrates in Africa based on rainfall