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The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration (2023)
by Jake Bittle
Focusing on the United States, Bittle traces the stories of a new generation of domestic climate migrants, displaced in an unpredictable, chaotic, and life-changing way: “These people live in every corner of the country, from the waterlogged streets of Miami to the parched cotton fields of Arizona. They run the gamut from minimum-wage workers to millionaires, from liberals in big coastal cities to entrenched small-town conservatives. Their stories range from the tragic to the comic and from the inspiring to the infuriating. Indeed, there is only one thing they all have in common: they are moving.”
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.
Jake Bittle is a journalist who focuses on climate change and energy. He is a staff writer for Grist, an online magazine founded in 1999 that publishes environmental news and commentary. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, and a number of other publications.
Library Availability: Multiple books, ebooks and audiobooks available at Hennepin County and Anoka County libraries.
