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Climate Brief: "No One Will Sit on a Sinking Ship" [1]
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Date: 2022-10-09
Rising seas have displaced hundreds of people from Guet NDar fishing village in Senegal to relocation camps. John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images
Climate-driven movement of people is adding to a massive migration already under way to the world’s cities. The number of migrants has doubled globally over the past decade, and the issue of what to do about rapidly increasing populations of displaced people will only become greater and more urgent. To survive climate breakdown will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken. The Century of Climate Migration (The Guardian)
Northern nations will be the destination of millions of climate refugees as climate change renders large regions of the world uninhabitable, generating migrations across continents: New cities will need to be constructed in the cooler regions as the ice melts near the poles.
Some migration examples include the movement of El Salvadoran farmers to the United States; the Middle East becoming home for Bangladeshis; and the residents of Africa’s Sahel seeking homes in Europe.
The climate crisis has already uprooted millions in the US – in 2018, 1.2 million were displaced by extreme conditions, fire, storms and flooding; by 2020, the annual toll had risen to 1.7 million people. The US now averages a $1bn disaster every 18 days.
We can see how a newly shaped world will lead to massive climate migrations by viewing some statistics about what we can expect by 2050:
annual flooding will impact half a million US homes
over 13 million Bangladeshis will be forced to leave the country
Cardiff, the capital of Wales will be 2/3 underwater
environmental migrants will number 1.2 billion, with the world’s population expected to reach 10 billion by 2060. Most will be born in the Global South
1.2 billion, with the world’s population expected to reach 10 billion by 2060. Most will be born in the Global South New York City expects an uptick in precipitation of nearly 11% as temperatures rise an average of 5.7 degrees (F).
In conjunction with COP27, NPR reporter Ari Shapiro will be traveling from the Sahel to Morocco to Europe and reporting in Come along as we connect the dots between climate, migration and the far-right.
Referencing former President Barack Obama’s comments after visiting Goree Island, where Africans were shipped off as slaves, Shapiro notes:
This project is focused on a different kind of mass exodus, though it too raises questions about human rights and the goodness of humanity. When I spoke with [Arame] Tall about her research into climate change and her own family's experiences in Senegal, she used an expression that I had never heard before. As she described the extreme weather events forcing people to relocate, she said, "No one will sit on a sinking ship." The phrase struck me, and I asked her if this was a well-known Senegalese expression. She seemed surprised by my question. It's a concept that is simply obvious where she grew up, she said. "It's common sense where I come from."
Africa Climate Caravans
The nations that are suffering the direst consequences of climate change are those that contributed the least to global warming. In conjunction with COP27, visit Africa’s Climate Caravans, a virtual roadshow. Read stories from across the continent and hear the demands for climate justice.
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