The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle

Abandoned homes with boarded up windows. Mold growing up the walls of houses flooded under five feet of water. The charred remnants of entire neighborhoods turned to ash. Fields of white cotton turned brown, the soil below choked with drought. In his new book, The Great Displacement: Climate Change...

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description Abandoned homes with boarded up windows. Mold growing up the walls of houses flooded under five feet of water. The charred remnants of entire neighborhoods turned to ash. Fields of white cotton turned brown, the soil below choked with drought. In his new book, The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration, Jake Bittle paints a startling picture of the havoc climate change is wreaking upon various regions of our country. But more stark than the images of the landscapes destroyed are the stories of the humans who call these places home.
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spelling doaj.art-394836a6c35f4f80b0117469791381862024-02-20T22:36:06ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingOpen Rivers2471-190X2024-02-01Issue 25: Winter 2024https://doi.org/10.24926/2471190X.11031The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake BittleAbandoned homes with boarded up windows. Mold growing up the walls of houses flooded under five feet of water. The charred remnants of entire neighborhoods turned to ash. Fields of white cotton turned brown, the soil below choked with drought. In his new book, The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration, Jake Bittle paints a startling picture of the havoc climate change is wreaking upon various regions of our country. But more stark than the images of the landscapes destroyed are the stories of the humans who call these places home. https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/the-great-displacement/ engagementplanning / policypolicysocial sciencesunited states
spellingShingle The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
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title The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
title_full The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
title_fullStr The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
title_full_unstemmed The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
title_short The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
title_sort great displacement climate change and the next american migration by jake bittle
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planning / policy
policy
social sciences
united states
url https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/the-great-displacement/