Migrant labourers rest during the pandemic lockdown in Lucknow, India. April 22, 2020
When people from villages migrate, compounded not only by lack of economic opportunities, but the underlying environmental stresses that displace people, only to reach the limits of adaptation, with overcrowded cities being unable to take in more migrants—a reality that has now gripped our unliveable cities—we will have reached a full circle, mistaking an end for a beginning
Data Sources: UN Population Division, Centre for Science and Environment, IPCC special