Earlier that year, Oppenheimer helped write the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that, for the first time, explored in-depth how climate disruption might uproot large segments of the global population. Demographers, agronomists and economists were all doing their work on climate change in isolation, but understanding the question of migration would have to include all of them. Past droughts, most likely caused by climate change, have already killed more than 100,000 people there. Even as the scientific consensus around climate change and climate migration builds in some circles the topic has become taboo. If leaders take fewer actions against climate change, or more punitive ones against migrants, food insecurity will deepen, as will poverty.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 21, 2020 23:00 UTC