Lustgarten ”On the move: The overheating of earth and the uprooting of America”

beskriver Abrahm Lustgarten en värld där klimatkrisens återkommande skogsbränder, torka, översvämningar, och dödliga, fuktiga värme driver människor på flykt.

Det som gör Lustgartens bok intressant är beskrivningen av hur klimatförändringar kan komma att skapa omfattande migrationsströmmar inom USA.

 Framför allt saknar Harris att döma av kampanjens programförklaring en plan för hur landet ska hantera en nära klimatframtid med ökade migrationsströmmar. 

Det är symptomatiskt att Harris i en lång intervju om Biden-administrationens klimatpolitik endast nämnde migrationsfrågan en gång – och då som ett säkerhetshot mot landet.

SvD 16 september 2024

https://www.svd.se/a/73q7AV/harris-saknar-en-plan-hur-ska-usa-hantera-klimatkrisens-flyktingstrommar

In “On the Move,” Abrahm Lustgarten predicts a massive demographic shift in response to an increasingly unlivable world.

Climate-driven migrations will almost certainly become a widespread trend in coming decades — computer models indicate extraordinary temperature extremes for many parts of the Middle East and northern Africa. 

For years, he points out, state and federal incentives have allowed Americans to settle in dangerous places — giving them cheap flood insurance if they reside in a flood zone, for instance, or offering subsidized or regulated home insurance policies even when they live in a wildfire area or near an eroding beach. 

Ending such practices could allow homeowners to evaluate climate risks more clearly, potentially hastening moves to safer places.

In that regard, this book should fill readers’ minds with possibilities. We know that many Americans are heading into a future that’s either too hot, too dry, too wet or too chaotic for comfort. And — if our current immigration disputes are any indication — too mean.

New York Times 22 March 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/review/abrahm-lustgarten-on-the-move.html

https://www.amazon.com/Move-Overheating-Earth-Uprooting-America/dp/0374171734

Texas Is the New Arizona

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/09/texas-is-new-arizona.html