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Deepak Bhargava, Rich Stolz, Aug. 24, 2022
"Climate change and mass migration are reshaping politics, economies, and livelihoods around the world—and they are increasingly connected. Climate change has already forced people across the globe to leave their homes to seek safety and sustainable livelihoods, and the pace of climate migration will continue to accelerate as the climate warms. Sudden-onset disasters, like hurricanes and floods, and slow-onset changes, like desertification and rising temperatures, will make more and more of the world inhospitable or uninhabitable. Depending on the rate of climate change and population growth over the coming 50 years, between 1 and 3 billion people are projected to live in areas outside the climate conditions that have sustained human life over the past 6,000 years.
Yet national and international policy architectures are mostly silent about climate migration. There is no migration pathway in US law for people displaced by climate change, and international climate agreements have little to say about what is to become of the millions of people who will need to migrate to survive.
In The Statue of Liberty Plan: A Progressive Vision for Migration in the Age of Climate Change, Deepak Bhargava and Rich Stolz discuss the links between climate change and migration, and propose a new plan—the Statue of Liberty Plan—for the US to reject nativism and instead embrace a new narrative and policies that would make the US the most welcoming country on earth for migrants and refugees. Adoption of the plan would counter authoritarian appeals, advance national economic and cultural renewal, and strengthen and protect multiracial democracy.
In the report, Bhargava and Stolz: