On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America

Scientists estimate that as many as one in three people on the planet will find the places they live unmanageably hot or dry by 2070.

Decades from now, the United States will be wildly different, even unrecognizable. Some of the most dramatic changes will occur in regions few thought were especially vulnerable to climate change at all.

they will move in stages, first to cities, then out of countries and off continents on a scale so vast that it promises to transform much that is familiar about our cities and societies, our cultures and our economies. In Europe, the fast and large displacement of people from Syria and North Africa—which peaked at around two million migrants in 201

chapters 1 through 4 construct a detailed portrait of what life might be like within just ten or twenty years.

will explain how Americans in some of the most populated regions of the country have put themselves at particular risk, exposing a pattern of shortsighted policies that encouraged people to settle in vulnerable parts of the continent. It will show how decades of economic policies have favored some Americans over others, polarizing the country furth

As the planet slowly cooks, people will do what they have done for thousands of years in response to changes in their environment: they will move.