Abstract: This article describes the importance of having students study the relationship between climate change and migration as phenomena currently impacting millions of people now and more so in the future. Teachers can have students examine how their communities develop resilience or mitigation practices to cope with climate change impacts to reduce the need to migrate, study the history of migration due to different reasons, the use of positive and negative language employed to describe migrants, and the portrayals of migration in literature as well as in the media, movies, or documentaries, in ways that lead to their perceiving the need to address the climate crisis.
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