“Jake Bittle travels from Florida to California to see how climate change is already altering people’s lives. The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.”
—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Under a White Sky
“We know what climate change will do, now, if not precisely its scale. But we don’t yet see clearly just what it will do to us—our families and communities and homesteads, not mention our politics and culture. Jake Bittle’s “The Great Displacement” is a bracing, vivid tour of the new human geography just coming into view and warning us of what’s to come.”–David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth“
Until now, the word “displaced,” has never been strong enough to accurately conjure up what it really means: people driven from their homes, but not out of their countries, by the disruptive forces of climate-driven disasters. America already has millions of such people. We can’t call them “refugees” because they’re still here in America. Jake Bittle has found a way to bring us their individual accounts to tell the larger story of a failing system–extreme weather, government error and inaction, and corporate and individual greed have come together to drive an unfolding catastrophe, which already impacts us all.”
—Eliza Griswold, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Amity and Prosperity