Human Mobility in Post-Climate America
A Conversation with Jesse M. Keenan and Vann R. Newkirk II
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Millions of Americans will relocate in the coming decades due to climate change. As storms, heat and wildfires push Americans northward and inland, will this migration be chaotic, inequitable, and financially ruinous, or can it spark new economic growth and opportunity?
Please join the Future of Land and Housing Program at 快活app官网 for a conversation between scholar Jesse M. Keenan and journalist Vann R. Newkirk II on the rapidly shifting landscape of climate-driven migration in the United States.聽
Drawing from Keenan鈥檚 new book, (Oxford University Press), as well as Newkirk鈥檚 ongoing reporting for , the pair will explore how escalating climate impacts are already reshaping where Americans can and choose to live, from 鈥渄ead zones鈥 that people are leaving to 鈥渞eceiving communities" that are attracting new people. Together, Keenan and Newkirk will offer not only a diagnosis of our current climate crisis, but a path forward towards a more equitable and resilient America
SPEAKERS
Jesse M. Keenan, Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Planning; Director, Center on Climate Change and Urbanism, Tulane University
Vann R. Newkirk II, Senior Editor at The Atlantic