Abstract

GARCIA MALDONADO, Edgar. Analysis of the Causes of Migration in the Context of Climate Change According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climate Determinism and Ideology. Revista Col. San Luis [online]. 2022, vol.12, n.23, 00008.  Epub May 27, 2024. ISSN 2007-8846.  https://doi.org/10.21696/rcsl122320221349.

Climate change must be one of the topics that has been studied the most in recent years. Both the physical sciences and the social disciplines and humanities have dealt extensively with the nature, causes and effects of global warming on all dimensions of social and natural reality. One of those issues are migrations. This article analyzes the findings that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has recorded in its five evaluation reports on the relationship between climate change and migration, taking as a frame of reference the displacement of people who have left their homes in Central America to go to the United States in recent years. The notion of “climate reductionism”, proposed by Mike Hulme (2011), is taken as a starting point to affirm that, with some differences of degree, by arguing that migrations are an adaptive response to the effects of global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is reproducing a perspective of social processes that has its roots in environmental determinism, both as a methodological approach to reality and as an instrument of political legitimation of the social order.

Keywords : climate change; environmental determinism; climate determinism; ideology.