In his new book, jake_bittle makes it clear that climate change is already uprooting Americans. | booksnotboys
Much of the discourse around climate change and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events is forward-looking, hypothetical, but as Jake Bittle makes clear in his excellent new book, that future is already here., hones in on seven areas of the U.S. whose landscapes have already been dramatically reshaped by our changing climate—sometimes abruptly, sometimes gradually, over decades.simonandschuster.
For example, many of the Florida Keys, Bittle notes, could be underwater by the end of the century. But residents can’t expect any help from FEMA because “federal law does not recognize the slow rise of the oceans as an emergency like a hurricane or a wildfire.” He discusses how, in California, the private insurance market and state laws have worked in tandem to worsen the housing shortage and allow people to rebuild their homes in unsafe places without adhering to stricter building codes.
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