Allen, S. (2023, July 4). 30% of Americans cite climate change as a motivator to move in 2023. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/features/americans-moving-climate-change/
This article is about the rapid movement of Americans due to climate change. Statistics such as 51% of Americans having unexpected moves in the last two years, ⅓ of people citing climate change as a reason to move, and 34% of participants saying better weather was a reason they were moving to a new place. Also recent hurricane Ian is likely to be up to 67 billion dollars in damage. It was found in 2021 14.5 million homes were impacted by natural disasters. There have been a number of moves from coastal areas due to erosion so they physically cannot live in their homes anymore.“People are also moving away from areas prone to wildfires or extreme temperatures. Widespread fires that hit California, Montana, Oregon and Washington State and the deadly heatwave that the Pacific Northwest experienced in June 2021 prompted people to evacuate, and many opted not to return,” James Barati a top tier moving company owner says. Places like New Orleans are having more storms with not much time in between them. Overall, multiple places in America are on a decline because of climate change.
This article tackled a lot of different types of disaster that occur such as erosion, increase in storms, heat increase. These things all correlate because they are all impacts due to climate change that are affecting average people’s everyday life. One lady in the article mentioned she had started a degree in New Orleans in 2008 and due to circumstances she has not finished it but because of the rapid increase of hurricanes she feels trapped but she cannot restart a degree somewhere else. People facing health problems are probably least likely to be able to move, which is concerning because the people in poverty are probably the people most affected because they would have medical issues they would not be able to pay to treat as well. Overall the climate is affecting people in all areas across the country and we should really take into serious consideration the impacts this is having on people in these areas.
Wow! I find this so interesting. It is crazy to think about all the people moving to avoid climate change, however, they are some of the big reason for it. Humans contribute so much damage to the Earth creating climate change, and the fact that they are moving is worrisome. There is just going to be more damage caused in the places they are going due to the presence of humans and all they that do. It also is so sad to think about all the people being effected, and I hope we can do something soon about it all to help everyone, while helping our environment.
Thanks for reading!
Do you have any ideas of how we can find that balance quickly? Is there any progress being made yet?
I think we have to fix climate change to stop this. I think there is slow progress being made currently.
I am so surprised that so many people would cite climate change as their reason to move homes. I wonder if the economic effect of the constant destruction of homes and businesses is enough to convince policy-makers who might not care about the environment to care, if only for the sake of human beings and their possessions.
Thanks for reading!