America’s ‘slowly dying’ cities – southern metropolis expected to boom…panicked residents flee
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By Laura Parnaby
August 4, 2024
Areas of Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Providence and Las Vegas are named as the top metro regions forecast to experience the biggest proportional exodus due to flood risk. Meanwhile, relatively ‘safe zones’ such as Jefferson County in Louisville, Kentucky, are seeing an influx of new residents.
Dr Jeremy Porter, who is head of climate implications at First Street Foundation which produced the peer-reviewed report, told DailyMail.com that people are increasingly basing their relocations on climate factors.
‘Over the past five years, people have really started to pay attention to the climate data as something that impacts their moves,’ he said.
‘If you couple flood risk with what we are already seeing from population projections from NASA, we are seeing there are going to be some places that do look dramatically different’.
Polls back this up. A recent Zillow report found 80 percent of Americans consider climate risks when searching for a new home, while Forbes released a study showing that 30 percent of homeowners say climate change was the reason for their move.
The First Street study identifies America’s top ten ‘climate abandonment areas’ – metro areas where people are leaving in droves due to the increasing risk of climate events disrupting their lives and businesses.
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