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 Open Rivers engagement planning / policy policy social sciences united states |
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 |
topic | engagement planning / policy policy social sciences united states |
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