As with wildfires, floods, and drought, connecting the dots between anthropogenic climate change and human migration is difficult. So I admire a story that explores the likely prospect of climate-driven refugees through the lens of recent environmental disasters. Joanna Kakissis pulls it off in this superb NYT story. I got to know Joanna last year, when both of us were Fellows at the University of Colorado's Center for Environmental Journalism. She's a talented reporter. When I heard she was going to Bangladesh, I knew a story on "climate refugees" would be a tough nut to crack. But I think she sets the right tone near the beginning of her Times piece, with this:
Natural calamities have plagued humanity for generations. But with the prospect of worsening climate conditions over the next few decades, experts on migration say tens of millions more people in the developing world could be on the ...
