The Great Displacement

Puts a human face to Americans who are already losing their homes due to wildfires, floods, drought, hurricanes and other natural forces associated with rapid climate change. The victims are both rich and poor, but while the rich can afford to rebuild elsewhere, the poor are stymied by outdated government disaster planning and a nationwide affordable housing crisis. Bittle skillfully humanizes the problem by focusing on individual people who have been forced to become “climate migrants.” He pulls back to provide context, trends, and proposed (if likely futile) solutions.

Coastal areas bear the greatest risk, and more than half of Americans live within an hour's drive of the ocean. I've never felt better about my little house in the middle of the country (notwithstanding the political BS taking place there).

accessible read about the most important topic around, but i wish he’d worked a little harder for insight as to what can be done. Reads like a long set of magazine articles. I fully agree with his conclusion — to have anything like a functioning society for anyone other than the filthy rich, we will need to establish a universal right to housing — but he lands there on the fifth to last page of the book. Come on my dude