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Wildfires, hurricanes, extreme heat, rising seas.
The climate crisis is already here in America.
It will change how — and where — we live.
Where will millions of us go? https://nyti.ms/3mnhJ3R
The climate crisis is already here in America.
It will change how — and where — we live.
Where will millions of us go? https://nyti.ms/3mnhJ3R
This is the second part of our series on climate migration in partnership with @propublica, with support from the @pulitzercenter. Read Part One here: https://nyti.ms/2FFA3Ek
For two years, @AbrahmL has been reporting on how climate change will force people across the world to migrate. This story, on climate displacement in America, was finished as wildfires raged only miles from his own family’s house in California.
https://nyti.ms/33BAYye
https://nyti.ms/33BAYye
. @AbrahmL interviewed more than four dozen experts — economists, demographers, climate scientists and insurance executives, architects and urban planners — to map out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years. https://nyti.ms/33BAYye
Across the United States, some 162 million people will most likely experience a decline in the quality of their environment, namely more heat and less water. https://nyti.ms/33BAYye
For 93 million of them, the changes could be particularly severe.
By 2070, at least 4 million Americans could find themselves living at the fringe, in places inhospitable to human life. https://nyti.ms/33BAYye
By 2070, at least 4 million Americans could find themselves living at the fringe, in places inhospitable to human life. https://nyti.ms/33BAYye
At least 28 million Americans are likely to face megafires like the ones we are now seeing in California, in places like Texas and Florida and Georgia. https://nyti.ms/33BAYye
At the same time, 100 million Americans — largely in the Mississippi River Basin from Louisiana to Wisconsin — will increasingly face heat and humidity so extreme that working outside or playing school sports could cause heatstroke. https://nyti.ms/33BAYye
Crop yields will be significantly reduced from Texas to Alabama, north through Oklahoma and Kansas and into Nebraska. https://nyti.ms/33BAYye
From Maine to North Carolina to Texas, rising sea levels are chewing up shorelines, raising rivers and swamping the subterranean infrastructure of coastal communities. Stable life there will become nearly impossible. https://nyti.ms/33BAYye
Eight of the nation’s 20 largest metropolitan areas — Miami, New York and Boston among them — will be profoundly altered, indirectly affecting 50 million people. https://nyti.ms/33BAYye
The future looks like this: https://nyti.ms/33BAYye
Projections from experts say that 13 million Americans will be forced to move away from submerged coastlines. When counting the people contending with wildfires and other risks, the number of Americans who might move could easily be tens of millions higher https://nyti.ms/33BAYye
Climate change is here, and it is going to reshape where Americans live.
Our cover story this week by @AbrahmL.
Photographs by @MeridithKohut.
https://nyti.ms/33BAYye
Our cover story this week by @AbrahmL.
Photographs by @MeridithKohut.
https://nyti.ms/33BAYye
