Filmmaker Josh Fox joins Borderlines to discuss his new HBO documentary, The Welcome Table, and the growing displacement of people around the world because of climate change.
Josh Fox is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker best known for Gasland, which helped bring international attention to fracking. In The Welcome Table, he travels through communities affected by fires, floods, drought and other climate disasters to explore what happens when people can no longer safely remain in their homes.
The conversation examines the relationship between climate change and migration, the treatment of refugees at borders, and the ways colonialism, economic inequality and the fossil-fuel industry have contributed to the present crisis. Josh also discusses the disproportionate effects of climate displacement on Indigenous peoples, poorer communities and LGBTQ people.
The episode considers whether existing refugee and human-rights frameworks are equipped for large-scale climate migration, and what an alternative to walls, detention and exclusion might look like. Josh argues that safety in an increasingly unstable world will depend not only on geography, but on strong communities, democracy, mutual aid and a willingness to welcome others.
The Welcome Table is available on HBO Max.
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