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Interview with filmmaker Josh Fox: Meeting mass migration with ‘Welcome Tables’ (not walls)

By Tom Llewellyn, originally published by Shareable

August 27, 2026

The world as we knew it is no more. It sounds dark, trite, and reductive, but there’s a truth in there that can’t be denied.

All signs point to the global climate changing faster than most scientists predicted. In the news, we see stories about extreme heat waves causing tens of thousands of deaths, ongoing droughts impacting the global food supply, and the accelerated loss of polar ice caps.

At the same time, for many of us, the reliability of the seasons we once had is no more. And while the changing weather may be a mild inconvenience for some of us, it can be catastrophic for others, especially for those in the global south who have contributed the least to the climate emergency. Many areas along the equator and in the Southern Hemisphere will become increasingly uninhabitable over the next 50 years, with one prominent study projecting that as many as three billion people will be forced to migrate to the Northern Hemisphere. That’s roughly a third of the global population! Even if it’s only the low side of that estimate, the migration of a billion people would completely transform every nation on the planet.

For the 100th episode of The Response Podcast, we interviewed Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Josh Fox about the climate crisis, human migration, and how to welcome those coming rather than meet them with walls and brutal criminalization.

Josh’s new film, The Welcome Table, is now available to watch on HBO Max.

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Teaser image credit: A still from the film The Welcome Table. Courtesy of Josh Fox.

Tom Llewellyn

Tom Llewellyn is the Strategic Partnerships Director at Shareable.net, and a lifelong sharer, commoner, and story teller. He manages organizational, editorial, and events partnerships and has coordinated the global Sharing Cities Network, #MapJam, and other community sharing campaigns, in addition to speaking internationally about real, equitable sharing. Tom is the co-editor of 2 books, “How to: Share, Save Money & Have Fun” (2016) and “Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons” (2018).

Tags: climate change, Climate Migration

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