Bogotá is Colombia’s sprawling, high-altitude capital and the next stop for a lot of the textile industries raw materials such as cotton and linen. They are spun together with synthetics such as acrylic and polyester to bring down costs and improve inconsistencies but many synthetic fibres rely heavily on fossil fuels which makes production much more carbon intensive than if we only used natural fibres. For example 70 million oil barrels are used every year to create polyester alone which goes on to produce over 20 million tonnes of carbon emissions.

Now the UNDP (United Nations development programme) declared Colombia as being at high risk of climate change impacts and with Temperatures in Colombia expected to increase by 2.14°C by the end of the century. The Amazon and Caribbean regions can expect 10-30% less rainfall, while the Andean region can expect 10-30% more. That is going to mean sea levels rise and glaciers thaw, while fresh water sources dwindle. We can expect desertification, droughts, landslides and flooding – all of which will cause damage to infrastructure and a loss of agricultural productivity. 

Data analysis predicts that nearly 70% of Colombia's population will have to migrate by 2070 due to uninhabitable temperatures. People would be forced to travel towards the country's Andes range, where the capital of Bogota and other major cities like Medellin are located. In light of the economic growth Colombia has created for itself in the last few decades, it is safe to assume that most of the population will be lifted above the poverty threshold, and into a better position to adapt. That being said, having nearly 70% of the population live in Sahara-like temperatures by 2070 plus the added burden of humidity means that Colombia could truly become too hot to live in. Economic growth means little in the face of the forced relocation of 36 million people.