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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023

Florida’s Great Displacement has already begun

Author:     Jake Bittle
Source:     Business Insider / Yahoo News
Publication Date:     Tue, February 21, 2023 | 3:00 AM PST
 Link: Florida’s Great Displacement has already begun
Stephan:  

I have been astounded by the fact that the Florida legislative Republicans and DeSantis are utterly failing to do what the state needs to have done in preparation for climate change. I have been telling you for more than 30 years that the United States is going to experience three massive internal migrations involving tens of millions of people, and that states like Florida are going to be fundamentally changed. Every analysis of the state's future that I have seen predicts much of the state is going to go beneath the sea and by the end of the century Florida is going to be a radically different state, with a very different much smaller population.

Climate change is making disasters like hurricanes more devastating and frequent, and Floridians are already being forced to flee. Credit: Marianne Ayala / Business Insider / Getty

The state’s climate exodus has already begun

As many residents will be proud to tell you, the thousand-odd islands that make up the Florida Keys are one of a kind: there is no other place in the world that boasts the same combination of geological, ecological, and sociological characteristics. The islands have a special, addictive quality about it, an air of freedom that leads people to turn their backs on mainland life.

The Keys are also the first flock of canaries in the coal mine of climate change. Over the past few years, the residents of these islands have been forced to confront a phenomenon that will affect millions of Americans before the end of the century. Their present calamity offers a glimpse of our national future.

Nature is changing. Today’s hurricanes tend to be stronger, wetter, and less predictable than those of the last century. They hold more moisture, speed up […]

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1 Comment

  1. Albus Eddie on Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 9:21 am

    As the comments to the article indicate, it will ultimately be the insurance industry that will give the pricing message that living in the area is not sustainable. The same for fire prone California. The market will determine the cost of risk; however, I will place bets that the legislatures in both Florida and California will attempt to intervene on behalf of the wealthy in propping up real estate values. Interesting times.