‘On the move’: New book explores how economics will drive climate migration
For decades beginning in the 1920s, farmers in Crowley County, Colorado, prospered off the abundance of water from the Colorado River. It fueled a lucrative agricultural industry, and as nearby cities grew and demand for water surged, farmers sold shares of their water rights to developers for as much as $10,000 each. Then came a long period of drought, and farmers who had bet on natural rainfall to replenish their water supply watched as thousands of acres of once-fertile land dried up. … In his new book, On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America, Lustgarten revisits Crowley and other climate-vulnerable locales to explore the intersection between economics and a warming planet, and how these forces will shape the massive population shifts expected in the US in coming decades.
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