Book Chat with Acclaimed Climate Journalist Abrahm Lustgarten

Join ASU’s Ten Across Initiative Executive Director, Wellington “Duke” Reiter, in a chat with renowned climate journalist Abrahm Lustgarten discussing Abrahm’s recently release book, On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America and the impacts already taking shape in the Ten Across region.

Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens of millions of people are likely to be driven from the places they call home. Poorer communities will be left behind, while growth will surge in the cities and regions most attractive to climate refugees. America will be changed utterly.

In his most recent book, On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America, Abrahm Lustgarten gives a definitive account of what this massive population shift might look like. As he shows, the United States will be rendered unrecognizable by four unstoppable forces: wildfires in the West; frequent flooding in coastal regions; extreme heat and humidity in the South and droughts that will make farming all but impossible across much of the nation.

Employing the most current climate data and predictive models, he shows how America’s population will be squeezed northward into a shrinking triangle of land stretching from Tennessee to Maine to the Great Lakes. The places many of us now call home are at risk, and On the Move reveals how we’ll deal with the consequences.

Join Abrahm in discussion with Wellington "Duke" Reiter, Executive of ASU's University City Exchange and Ten Across Initiative as they discuss highlights from Abrahm's book and impacts already being felt in the southern tier of the country--the Ten Across region. 

 This special event is hosted by ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory.