Article 5NCMW Parts of the US are getting dangerously hot. Yet Americans are moving the wrong way | David Sirota and Julia Rock

Parts of the US are getting dangerously hot. Yet Americans are moving the wrong way | David Sirota and Julia Rock

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David Sirota and Julia Rock
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As the climate changes, census data shows that Americans are shifting from safer areas of the US to the regions most at risk of heating and flooding

Science has provided America with a decent idea of which areas of our country will be most devastated by climate change, and which areas will be most insulated from the worst effects. Unfortunately, it seems that US population flows are going in the wrong direction - new census data shows a nation moving out of the safer areas and into some of the most dangerous places of all.

To quote Planes, Trains and Automobiles: we're going the wrong way.

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