On the Move
The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
by Abrahm Lustgarten
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Pub Date Mar 26 2024 | Archive Date Apr 08 2024
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
"On the Move explains how we got here and where we're headed. It's crucial guide to the world we are creating." —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction
A vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible.
Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens of millions of people are likely to be driven from the places they call home. Poorer communities will be left behind, while growth will surge in the cities and regions most attractive to climate refugees. America will be changed utterly.
Abrahm Lustgarten’s On the Move is the definitive account of what this massive population shift might look like. As he shows, the United States will be rendered unrecognizable by four unstoppable forces: wildfires in the West; frequent flooding in coastal regions; extreme heat and humidity in the South; and droughts that will make farming all but impossible across much of the nation.
Reporting from the front lines of climate migration, Lustgarten explains how a pattern of shortsighted policies encouraged millions to settle in vulnerable parts of the country, and introduces us to homeowners in California, insurance customers in Florida, and ranchers in Colorado who are being forced to make the agonizing choice of when, not whether, to leave. Employing the most current climate data and predictive models, he shows how America’s population will be squeezed northward into a shrinking triangle of land stretching from Tennessee to Maine to the Great Lakes. The places many of us now call home are at risk, and On the Move reveals how we’ll deal with the consequences.
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Advance Praise
“An urgent examination of how the U.S. will be affected by migrations driven by global warming . . . a nuanced account of how myriad factors intertwine to fuel migration . . . [with] poignant portraits . . . Readers will be unnerved.” —Publishers Weekly
"Abrahm Lustgarten has written a thoughtful, heartfelt account of how Americans will be—and, in fact, already are being—displaced by climate change. On the Move explains how we got here and where we're headed. It's crucial guide to the world we are creating." —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction
“The best way to understand how the climate crisis is changing America—culturally, economically, politically—is to read On the Move. It’s a brilliant, deeply researched look at the transformation that’s already underway in places like California and Michigan as people flee wildfires and extreme heat and flooding and imagine new lives in a less risky place. Along the way, Lustgarten grapples with some of the most important questions of our time: As climate impacts accelerate, who will benefit? Who will lose? Will climate-driven migration increase injustice and violence, or will it bring economic growth and a more stable democracy? On the Move captures the tumult of all this—think of it as a guidebook to the coming chaos of life in a rapidly warming world.” —Jeff Goodell, New York Times–bestselling author of The Heat Will Kill You First
"Abrahm Lustgarten has written the best account of one of the least examined but most immediate consequences of climate change. On the Move is an unflinching guidebook to our near future, aggressively reported, rigorously quantified, as terrifying as it is revelatory. Duluth, here we come." —Nathaniel Rich, author of Second Nature and Losing Earth
“One third of global migration is already accounted for by climate change. How much more will it be in the future? A lot more, as Abrahm Lustgarten carefully forecasts in this important book. Can we both relocate and future-proof ourselves at the same time? That is the great challenge humanity faces in an over-heating world.” —Parag Khanna, author of Move: Where People are Going for a Better Future
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780374171735 |
| PRICE | $30.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 336 |
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Featured Reviews
Gab T, Reviewer
This book is terrifying in an eye-opening way.
With concrete examples, the author explains how climate change impacts the United States, not just how natural disasters are more frequent and more severe, not just how the coasts are being swallowed by water, not just how the temperatures are becoming unlivable, not just how we're running out the water and farmlands are rapidly decreasing, not just how migration will come from others countries as well as other states and completely redesign the population distribution, ...
There are so many aspects of climate change I had never fully considered, and putting the whole phenomenon into one big picture is truly something I had never seen done before.
I particularly appreciated the section where the author explains how climate change will affect poorer populations and minorities more because they've historically been pushed to live in neighbourhoods that are more at risks, as well as having much less support from organizations and governments to help fund solutions to prevent disasters and less abilities to move elsewhere to avoid them. This conversation is essential to have in all climate change talks, and yet, I had never seen it explained and analysed in such a thorough way.
An absolute must read, not only to better understand the situation we're facing, but to be more apt to question where and how one must adapt to face these changes.
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