The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What” by Abrahm Lustgarten April 11
The complex, contradictory & heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.
"...People have always moved as their environment has changed. But today, the climate is warming faster, and the population is larger, than at any point in history.
As the U.S. gets hotter, its coastal waters rise higher, its wildfires burn larger & its droughts last longer, the notion that humankind can triumph over nature is fading and with it...goes the belief that self-determination & personal preference can be the driving factors in choosing where to live.
...a sweeping change is coming in the shape & location of communities across America, a change that promises to transform the country’s politics, culture & economy.
It has already begun. More Americans are displaced by catastrophic climate-change-driven [disasters] every year..."
