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Migration is a successful climate adaptation strategy
Governments across the world should legalise and regulate temporary climate migration, rather than try to prevent it.
- Alex Randall
- Al Jazeera
After a particularly bad year for rainfall, Miguel told a group of researchers that he was leaving Mexico for the US.
This wasn’t a permanent move he explained, he would be back. In fact, he’d made the move several times before.
“The only solution is to go away, at least for a while. Each year, I’m working for three to five months in Wyoming. That’s my main source of income.”
The ability to…