Report: Appalachia Could Be a Haven for Climate Change Migrants
After the end of the last ice age, there is evidence that the water rose about thirteen feet in a single century. If that were to occur again, it would be a catastrophe for coastal cities around the world, causing hundreds of millions of people to flee from the coastlines and submerging trillions of dollars’ worth of real estate and infrastructure.
Jeff Goodell • The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
As Bill McKibbenwrote recently, the best thing you can do to prepare yourself for climate change is live in an area with a high degree of social trust.
We’ve come through 75 years where having neighbors was essentially optional: if you had a credit card, you could get everything you needed to survive dropped off at your front door. But the next 75... See more
Rosie Spinks • The Friendship Problem
