Globalization got mns out of poverty, and climate change will send mns back into it, and thousands on the migrant trail: The World Bank predicted in 2015 that climate change would send at least 100 mn people back into poverty by 2030 — with most of those people being in Africa. In another report on internal climate migration, the World Bank estimates that by 2050, as many as 143 mn people across three developing regions will become climate migrants, with individuals, families and even whole communities forced to seek more viable and less vulnerable places to live. In Cairo, which sees an abundance of Ethiopian, Eritrean and Sudanese refugees attempting to make their way to Europe, experts said that 2015 saw a doubling of new arrivals from sub-Saharan Africa. The climate breakdown exacerbates the reasons people have for needing to migrate, including desperate socioeconomic conditions and pressure to make ends meet, writes Carola Rackete, a German ship captain who was arrested for rescuing 40 refugees from the Mediterranean earlier this year.

We just simply don’t know how to grow food in this environment anymore. As rains, temperatures, and wildlife start to behave in new and unexpected ways, traditional farming practices that have endured for thousands of years are now becoming obsolete, Peter Schwartzstein writes in National Geographic. Changes affect when crops can be planted and harvested, when weeding can be done, how stocks can be managed, and where animals can graze. This results in more failing crops, more hunger in parts of the world that were already vulnerable, and more suffering as traditional knowledge and culture are eroded.