How are assumptions around science and migration undermining climate policy?

Award winning author and journalist Sonia Shah talks to Alasdair about her book, The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move. She talks about what we can learn about human migration from wildlife, why climate migration should be seen as an adaptation strategy rather than a coming crisis, and the dangers of elitism in scholarly science.

Further reading: 

• Details about The Next Great Migration and where to buy it, as well as Sonia's other books, can be found here on her website.
• 'First Came the Hurricane, Then Came the Campaign of Terror', by Sonia Shah in The Nation.
• Native Species or Invasive? The Distinction Blurs as the World Warms, by Sonia Shah in Yale School of the Environment
• Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International Law by Jane McAdam
• Climate and Human Migration: Past Experiences, Future Challenges by Robert McLeman.
• 'Follow the science: but whose science, and to where?' by Lauren Sneade on Land and Climate

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