Over the past year, the advent of a professional economy powered by people working from home has quickened the conversation about where to live, particularly among millennials. “Is now the right time to buy property in Minnesota?” “Is Buffalo the new place to be?”
How important is proximity to fresh water? Should you risk moving somewhere that has fire seasons? How far north do you have to go to find liveable summers?
Americans have defied the norms of climate migration seen elsewhere in the world, flocking to cities like Phoenix, Houston and Miami that face some of the greatest risks from soaring temperatures and rising sea levels.
Those patterns seem likely to change.
New data from the Rhodium Group, analyzed by ProPublica, shows that climate damage will wreak havoc on the southern third of the country, erasing more than 8% of its economic output and likely turning migration from a choice to an imperative.
The data shows that the warming climate will alter everything from how we grow food to where people can plausibly live. Ultimately, millions of people will […]
A useful video with the worst voice over ever. I think many who accept the reality of climate change are still imagining with more renewables and electrification of everything we can slow and stop the global heating. Wrong the tipping points are past so it is time to do all we can to protect what can be protected and plan retreats from places that can’t be. I’m amazed at this late date with all the data available still most will not see what is in front of them. Coming too soon will be American climate refugees by the thousands needing shelter unable to return to their comfortable homes.
My sister and her husband just finished a very nice big house near the coast in NC. Before she start construction I asked if she had considered sea level rise no she said they talked with locals who said never has that area flooded in the worst hurricanes. What more can I do?