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Re:Where America's climate migrants will go as sea level rises by beefalo on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @02:22PM (#22250135)
Their map doesn't make any sense to me. They show no expected migration to really any of the cities in the midwest but somehow they expect a mass migration of people from Miami to rural western Kentucky?
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Re:Where America's climate migrants will go as sea level rises by tomatotomato37 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @02:44PM (#22250344)
The whole concept doesn't make sense; 80 years in the future we won't even know if the US exists as a singular entity anymore let alone where its centers of population will end up. Imagine if 1920 Russia tried to predict where its population would end up in 2000; nothing would match up.
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Re:Where America's climate migrants will go as sea level rises by goatlover on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @02:28PM (#22250182)
Why rural Kentucky and not Northern Florida or Georgia?
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Re:Where America's climate migrants will go as sea level rises by alistairSH on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @03:16PM (#22250571)
Are the shades of red based on migration relative to that same region's previous numbers, or some national average?
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