WOULD YOU STAY IF YOUR HOME BECAME A DESERT?

A few years from now, my home town in the Mediterranean will experience drastic change as global temperatures rise by 2°C.  According to the studies, the whole of southern Spain will become a desert.

By the middle of this century, experts estimate that climate change is likely to displace between 150 and 300 million people.  If these people were the citizens of a single country, it would be the fourth-largest country in the world.  Yet neither the world as a whole, nor the individual countries immediately facing large migrant influxes, are prepared to support such high numbers of ‘climate migrants’.

What does the future offer for those who can’t flee from their homes?

These satellite images of the most vulnerable places were driven by concern for the effects of the climate crisis.  The effects and the scale of our interactions with the environment can be clearly seen on publicly-available satellite images.  The project’s ambition is to help us better understand the issues that are fuelling migration and the loss of fertile soil.