climate migration

In the future, New York and Los Angeles may no longer be the most populous U.S. cities as climate change will lead to migration inland, experts say. But climate migration is not just a part of the future – it’s happening now thanks to flooding, wildfires and other phenomena, NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain reports.

Climate migration and subsequent gentrification will accelerate as the United States faces an accelerating sea-level rise, more intense heatwaves, wildfires, and even mega hurricanes, all worsened by a warming planet. Those trends and events will leave more and more of America uninhabitable.

Living on the edge of an abyss. That’s how one climate migration expert describes our current plight as nearly 15 million Americans could seek new homes in our lifetime as they try to escape the worst of effects of climate change. If that projection proves accurate it would reshape our country in more significant ways than the exodus of Black...