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A review by cwilliams20809
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
informative
fast-paced
5.0
Timely. Informative. Necessary. I’m really glad I read this book.
The writing is the epitome of accesible. Bittle integrates policy, ethnography, interviews, and history seamlessly. Clearly he did his research.
His message is clear - climate change is causing, and will cause, a mass exodus of individuals from US coastal areas and regions susceptible to extreme heat. These ‘climate migrants’ will need refuge in low-risk areas.
Although, the focus of the text is climate disaster, I appreciated his connection to social and economic inequity. As these factors also matter for where people choose to live. He spent just enough time on social forces, policy, and international migration. Any less and the topic would have been an after-thought. Any more and his thesis would be muddled.
His recommendations, primarily in chapter 8, are lofty. But grandiose ideas are necessary, at this point.
The writing is the epitome of accesible. Bittle integrates policy, ethnography, interviews, and history seamlessly. Clearly he did his research.
His message is clear - climate change is causing, and will cause, a mass exodus of individuals from US coastal areas and regions susceptible to extreme heat. These ‘climate migrants’ will need refuge in low-risk areas.
Although, the focus of the text is climate disaster, I appreciated his connection to social and economic inequity. As these factors also matter for where people choose to live. He spent just enough time on social forces, policy, and international migration. Any less and the topic would have been an after-thought. Any more and his thesis would be muddled.
His recommendations, primarily in chapter 8, are lofty. But grandiose ideas are necessary, at this point.