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The Great Displacement : Climate Change and the Next American Migration.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2024Copyright date: 2023Edition: First Simon & Schuster trade paperback editionDescription: xix, 347 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1982178264
  • 9781982178260
Other title:
  • Climate change and the next American migration
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Great displacement.DDC classification:
  • 362.870973 23/eng/20230113
LOC classification:
  • HV640 .B55 2024
Contents:
The end of the earth : climate change and the age of permanent disaster : Big Pine Key, Florida -- After the flood : managed retreat and its victims : Kinston, North Carolina -- Burnout : wildfires, insurance, and the housing crisis : Santa Rosa, California -- The story of the Verdins : coastal erosion and cultural extinction : Pointe-au-Chien, Louisiana -- Frankenstein city : flood control and urban inequality : Houston, Texas -- Why should this a desert be? : drought, agriculture, and the era of expansion : Pinal County, Arizona -- Bailout : rising seas and falling markets : Norfolk, Virginia -- Where will we go? : a new American geography.
Summary: "We think about the dangers of climate change in the future tense: that as global warming gets worse over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world fleeing famine and rising seas. What we often don't realize is that the consequences of climate change are already visible, right here in the United States. Bittle shows that, from fire-scorched California to the soaked watersheds of inland North Carolina, people are moving. Insurance and mortgage markets are already shifting to reflect mounting climate risk, pricing people out of risky areas. He tells the stories of those already experiencing life on the move, and show how radically climate change will transform our lives--and reshape the geography of the United States."-- Adapted from jacket.
List(s) this item appears in: 2024 New Titles
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BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab HV640 .B55 2024 1 Available 50583020031856
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-338) and index.

The end of the earth : climate change and the age of permanent disaster : Big Pine Key, Florida -- After the flood : managed retreat and its victims : Kinston, North Carolina -- Burnout : wildfires, insurance, and the housing crisis : Santa Rosa, California -- The story of the Verdins : coastal erosion and cultural extinction : Pointe-au-Chien, Louisiana -- Frankenstein city : flood control and urban inequality : Houston, Texas -- Why should this a desert be? : drought, agriculture, and the era of expansion : Pinal County, Arizona -- Bailout : rising seas and falling markets : Norfolk, Virginia -- Where will we go? : a new American geography.

"We think about the dangers of climate change in the future tense: that as global warming gets worse over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around the world fleeing famine and rising seas. What we often don't realize is that the consequences of climate change are already visible, right here in the United States. Bittle shows that, from fire-scorched California to the soaked watersheds of inland North Carolina, people are moving. Insurance and mortgage markets are already shifting to reflect mounting climate risk, pricing people out of risky areas. He tells the stories of those already experiencing life on the move, and show how radically climate change will transform our lives--and reshape the geography of the United States."-- Adapted from jacket.

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