Guzman, Andrew T. Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change. (New York City: Oxford University Press, 2013).

This book casually addresses the effects of climate change and tries to predict the minimum and maximum damages to the world caused by environmental changes. Guzman starts by arguing that climate change is real and gives many examples of how this is an undeniable fact. Later, he starts to describe the different threats to human health that climate change will impose. First, he discusses that the disappearance of habitable land will likely cause mass migration that developed countries will try to minimize their aid toward. Second, he describes the danger that clean water faces and connects the threat toward water to the threat of human survival. Lastly, he makes a connection between water scarcity, climate migration, and potential armed conflicts. I thought this book was a very good introduction to climate migration and other issues that may come from climate change. It is easy to read, but there are some moments when things come across as oversimplified. Furthermore, a few examples of conflicts seemed a bit abrasive in that they almost made real and complicated issues or responses to problems appear childish. Additionally, this book does not entirely discuss climate migration, but many chapters focus on it. I recommend reading Chapter 3: Deeper Waters.

Kelly, Elaine. Dwelling in the Age of Climate Change: The Ethics of Adaptation. (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).

Kelly argues that there is a massive ethical problem with climate migration and more broadly climate migration, this concern comes from the idea of dwellings or domiciles. This book attempts to argue that countries largely responsible for mass pollution destroy the dwellings of people in developing countries, so they ought to be responsible for harboring migrants. When she focuses on the response to migrants by developing countries she says that this is also an ethical issue. People are called to be hospitable and act as hosts when they have guests over, so this should be the response rather than xenophobia. She advocates that there should be a climate convention that addresses migrants and loss of habitable land. The two cases of climate migration discussed in this book were Bangladesh and Australia. The argument Kelly made is that if Australia does not reduce climate change then they will soon be responsible for migrants leaving Australia on a similar level to Bangladesh.