Hey Check This Out!: Climate Change may cause Areas in the US to Become Uninhabitable

 Some of the most populated cities in the US are at serious risk from rising temperatures. For example, Miami, Houston, and Phoenix, all cities closer to the equator, and at high risk of unmanageable temperatures in the future. A new data set from the Rhodium Group states that climate change will target the southern third of the country, reducing its economic value by 8%. These problems compounded may change migration from an option into a necessity. The main problems will be heatwaves and flooding, primarily flooding, as that quite literally destroys houses.

This is a major issue due to the first point I mentioned, the cities there are extremely populated, with Houston and Phoenix holding the fourth and fifth highest population in the whole US respectively. The devastation caused by this will be incredible. It won't just stop at housing though, migration may change due to other reasons, as climate change shrinks the zones where we can efficiently grow food. The map will be much more similar to the Dust Bowl in the 30s than the map we're used to nowadays.

As scary as all of this sounds, the main issue I see would be a strong increase in the homeless population, the South's economic desaturation, and the displacement problems. The food issues would be problematic, but not as much so as these issues. The homeless population with the rising climate would cause a lot of deaths, mostly elderly people I imagine, heatstroke would become much more common. The South would suffer economically, and many more people would move to the North.

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