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The untold story of how climate migration is reshaping America and the personal stories of those experiencing displacement due to global climate change.
When we think of the migration caused by global climate change, we often only think of international refugees. Unfortunately, no reporting has covered in-depth what migration will look like in the United States-or shown that this migration is already happening-until now.
From half-drowned Louisiana to fire-scorched California, from the dunes of the Navajo Reservation to the soaked watersheds of inland North Carolina, people are moving. In the last decade alone, the federal government has sponsored the relocation of tens of thousands of families away from flood zones, and tens of thousands more have moved of their own accord in the aftermath of natural disasters. Rising seas have already begun to sink eastern coastal cities, while extreme heat, unprecedented drought, and unstoppable wildfires plague the west. Over the next fifty years, millions will be caught up in the churn, forced to scramble to land less valuable, eventually pressing inland in what will be the largest national migration that we've yet to experience.
The Great Churn details just how radically climate change will transform our lives, forcing us out of the country's hardest-hit areas, uprooting countless communities, and prompting a massive migration that will fundamentally reshape the United States.
When we think of the migration caused by global climate change, we often only think of international refugees. Unfortunately, no reporting has covered in-depth what migration will look like in the United States-or shown that this migration is already happening-until now.
From half-drowned Louisiana to fire-scorched California, from the dunes of the Navajo Reservation to the soaked watersheds of inland North Carolina, people are moving. In the last decade alone, the federal government has sponsored the relocation of tens of thousands of families away from flood zones, and tens of thousands more have moved of their own accord in the aftermath of natural disasters. Rising seas have already begun to sink eastern coastal cities, while extreme heat, unprecedented drought, and unstoppable wildfires plague the west. Over the next fifty years, millions will be caught up in the churn, forced to scramble to land less valuable, eventually pressing inland in what will be the largest national migration that we've yet to experience.
The Great Churn details just how radically climate change will transform our lives, forcing us out of the country's hardest-hit areas, uprooting countless communities, and prompting a massive migration that will fundamentally reshape the United States.