Climate-Driven Migration In America

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🗓️ 26 March 2024

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ProPublica reporter Abrahm Lustgarten says in the coming decades it's likely tens of millions of us will relocate to escape rising seas, punishing heat, floods and wildfires due to global warming. He says nine of the ten fastest growing regions of the country are on the front lines of the most severe and fast-changing climate conditions. His book is On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America.

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0:25.8	I'm Dave Davies.
0:27.5	I read a lot of books in this job, and now and then I come across one that I think
0:32.3	everyone should read.
0:34.4	One of those is the latest by my guest ProPublica reporter, Abram Lustgarten.
0:39.4	It's about climate change, which you may think you've already heard enough about. But Lustgarten paints a
0:45.2	detailed and sobering picture of how global warming is already affecting the lives of
0:50.0	many people
0:55.0	causing them to rethink where they're living.
0:54.0	And he says climate migration will increasingly reshape the country
0:58.0	as tens of millions of people move to escape rising seas,
1:02.0	searing heat and humidity, catastrophic floods and
1:05.1	wildfires, and earth-withering drought. Decades from now he writes, the United States
1:10.9	will be wildly different, even unrecognizable.
1:15.1	He examines what happens when climate refugees take flight, something we're already seeing
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