Environment & climate
Climate migration and the redrawing of where people can live
11 min
Heat, drought, and rising seas are already pushing people to move. Explore how a warming world is reshaping habitability and the geopolitical pressures building around large-scale migration.
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Show notes
The human climate niche exists within a mean annual temperature range of eleven to fifteen degrees Celsius.
Two hundred sixteen million people are projected to become internal migrants by twenty fifty due to climate change.
The nineteen fifty-one Refugee Convention excludes environmental collapse as a valid legal ground for seeking asylum.
Australia and Tuvalu established the Falepili Union treaty to create legal pathways for climate-driven displacement.
Kiribati purchased twenty square kilometers of land in Fiji to prepare for the total loss of sovereign territory.
Remittances from climate migrants serve as a form of private insurance for families to build resilient housing.
In this episode
- 1Intro1 min
- 2The Shrinking Niche3 min
- 3The Legal Limbo3 min
- 4Geopolitical Friction and Sovereignty2 min
- 5The Economic Opportunity Narrative2 min
- 6Outro1 min
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