Briefing | Out of the frying pan The surprising upside of climate migration To adapt to climate change, people will move. Nativists in rich countries use imagined hordes of climate migrants to justify ever stricter policing of borders. Niger, where climate change is already spurring large-scale migration, gives a sense of how things might unfold. Mediterranean Sea Alexandria Alexandria Alexandria ISRAEL Cairo Cairo Cairo SAUDI ARABIA EGYPT Nile Red Sea Mediterranean Sea Alexandria Alexandria Alexandria Cairo Cairo Cairo EGYPT Nile Red Sea Mediterranean Sea Alexandria Alexandria Alexandria JORDAN Cairo Cairo Cairo SAUDI ARABIA EGYPT Nile Red Sea In Egypt most people live along the Mediterranean coast or the Nile. The challenges of preparing for climate migration, though only a subset of the challenges of preparing for climate change itself, are immense.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 29, 2023 18:01 UTC