The Sunday Read: 'How Climate Migration Will Reshape America'

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🗓️ 27 September 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In August, Abrahm Lustgarten, who reports on climate, watched fires burn just 12 miles from his home in Marin County, Calif. For two years, he had been studying the impact of the changing climate on global migration and recently turned some of his attention to the domestic situation. Suddenly, with fires raging so close to home, he had to ask himself the question he had been asking other people: Was it time to move? This week on The Sunday Read, Abrahm explores a nation on the cusp of transformation. This story was written by Abrahm Lustgarten and recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.

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0:25.6	My name is Abrahan Lustgarten, I report on climate for ProPublica.
0:34.8	I recently wrote a cover story for The New York Times magazine about how Americans will
0:39.9	begin to move in response to their changing climate.
0:46.6	Most projects examining climate change tend to look at changing environmental conditions,
0:52.2	maybe changing natural conditions.
0:54.2	Few have yet looked at how people will live in a changed environment.
1:01.2	That really is really what drove me into this project is to try to understand, you know,
1:05.2	as the world changes, what will it mean for our lives?
1:08.0	How will people respond to that?
1:10.8	Where might they move to and if they don't move, how will we adapt?
1:14.6	I think we tend to think about climate changes in the United States in compartmentalized
1:23.1	way.
1:24.1	You know, we talk about fire risk on the West Coast or hurricanes in the southeast.
1:29.2	When you look at all of those risks together and we mapped them, I was just incredibly
1:34.9	surprised to see how much they overlap and how much of the country is covered and really
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