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The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

byJake Bittle

Journalist Jake Bittle follows Americans already moving because of fires, floods, heat, drought, erosion, and rising seas. Families and communities confront insurance failures, falling property values, government buyouts, lost tax bases, and the painful decision to leave places that define them. The book reveals climate migration not as a distant mass exodus but as many uneven displacements shaped by wealth, race, policy, and local geography. Bittle asks where people will go, who will help them move, and how receiving communities can prepare for a reshaped national map.

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

368

ISBN

9781982178253