For more than a decade now, many of the fastest-growing cities in the country have been in Texas. If this summer’s excessive heat is just a preview of what’s to come, however, those trends may radically change. | via TexasStandard
“America is going to have its own bout of climate-induced migration from the south to the north, and it will not go smoothly. In coming decades, tens of millions of people who – if current patterns continued – would have been living in all of these warm cities will instead relocate up north.”This transcript has been edited lightly for clarity:
And so when you look at those areas that have been, for many decades now, actually the boomtown areas of America, the areas that have absorbed a lot of the internal migration – the Southwest, Texas, Florida – those are the areas where that population is going to turn around.I’m no demographic expert, but a lot of things have surprised even demographers.
But at the same time, we have this sort of slower moving, longer-term trend of climate change that is slowly changing those places into places nobody is going to want to live. So if you’re able to live in a hurricane-prone area and not really see a hurricane and get lucky for, you know, decades, whereas heat is something that is qualitatively different than that, I think, because it’s going to come back every summer, and it’s going to get worse and worse year over year. And so I think you’re going to see particularly the desert areas – Phoenix, Vegas, parts of Texas in particular – I think are going to be the first places where that heat gets borderline unlivable.
So it’s a big, big issue. And it really underscores the need for America to build more housing everywhere, especially in the areas that are going to be the destinations for all these people who are going to be leaving the hot areas over time.
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