“Climate change and migration” shows that migration is a complicated phenomenon that is well documented in literature and film, and while it has many causes, forms, and effects, migration has been both a result of climate change and, at times, its cause. This article will show that how we conceptualize the topic of “climate change and migration” across a broad spectrum of cultural forms is crucial to how we understand and deal with the many issues that climate change will cause for global populations. To see the topic simply as a matter of American national security—as, for instance, some of Barack Obama’s comments have intoned—is to perpetuate the patterns of history that have favored unequal development and the production and maintenance of what Amitav Ghosh has called “disadvantage in terms of both wealth and power” (Ghosh, 2017, p. 110). To see nature or climate solely as the cause of migration, similarly, is to misapprehend the roots of the issue. Comparative analyses reveal interconnections of real political, economic, and environmental problems with fictional renderings of solutions. Film and literature show more starkly than news media how shortages and want are the result of a scarcity of democracy and of an extractive ethos that both relies on and maintains global inequities. “Climate change and migration” brings together data that questions the ideology of continual growth, limitless possibilities, and infinite resilience that has put the finite resources of the planet into jeopardy. Scholars in the Humanities have much to offer, both in producing narratives that popularize in concrete terms abstract knowledge about climate migration and in calling mainstream media to task for its failings and inaccuracies. The complexities and nuances of the topic of “climate change and migration” require honesty and a firm commitment to avoiding rarefied theorizing that lacks contact with material realities.

“气候变化与移民”表明，移民是一种复杂的现象，在文学和电影中都有详细记载，虽然它有许多原因、形式和影响，但移民既是气候变化的结果，有时也是气候变化的原因. 本文将表明，我们如何在广泛的文化形式中将“气候变化和移民”这一主题概念化，对于我们如何理解和处理气候变化将给全球人口带来的许多问题至关重要。将这个话题简单地视为美国国家安全的问题——例如，巴拉克奥巴马的一些评论所强调的那样——就是延续历史模式，这种模式有利于不平等的发展以及阿米塔夫·戈什所说的生产和维护“在财富和权力方面处于劣势”（Ghosh，2017 年，第 110 页）。同样，将自然或气候仅仅视为移民的原因是误解了问题的根源。比较分析揭示了真实的政治、经济和环境问题与虚构的解决方案之间的相互联系。电影和文学比新闻媒体更清楚地表明，短缺和匮乏是民主匮乏和依赖并维持全球不平等的榨取风气的结果。“气候变化和移民”汇集了质疑持续增长、无限可能性和无限恢复力的意识形态的数据，这些意识形态已将地球的有限资源置于危险之中。人文学科的学者可以提供很多东西，无论是制作以具体术语普及有关气候迁移的抽象知识的叙述，还是呼吁主流媒体为其失败和不准确之处承担责任。“气候变化和移民”主题的复杂性和细微差别需要诚实和坚定的承诺，避免缺乏与物质现实联系的稀薄理论。