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The untold story of climate migration in the United States, the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future.
Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think about it in the future tense, we imagine 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. In communities across the country, climate disasters are pushing thousands of people away from their homes.
Over the next fifty years, millions of Americans will be caught up in this churn of displacement, forced inland and northward in what will be the largest migration in our country's history. “The Great Displacement” compassionately tells the stories of those who are already experiencing life on the move, while detailing just how radically climate change will transform our lives, erasing historic towns and villages, pushing people toward new areas, and reshaping the geography of the United States.
Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think about it in the future tense, we imagine 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. In communities across the country, climate disasters are pushing thousands of people away from their homes.
Over the next fifty years, millions of Americans will be caught up in this churn of displacement, forced inland and northward in what will be the largest migration in our country's history. “The Great Displacement” compassionately tells the stories of those who are already experiencing life on the move, while detailing just how radically climate change will transform our lives, erasing historic towns and villages, pushing people toward new areas, and reshaping the geography of the United States.