"[A] fascinating new look at the population changes wrought by climate crisis . . . What consistently enlivens the book are the author's eloquent personal insights. His visits to Guatemala, especially, are astonishing as well as gripping . . . This book should fill readers' minds with possibilities." --Jon Gertner, The New York Times Book Review
"Poignant and meticulously researched . . . A compelling call to understand, prepare for, and act on the climate crisis . . . Combining rigorous research and engaging storytelling . . . A crucial examination of the impacts--realized and projected--in our own backyards and how these changes are remaking society . . . Both a call to action and a blueprint for how to weather the coming storm."
--Miriam R. Aczel and Michàlle E. Mor Barak, Science "An urgent examination of how the U.S. will be affected by migrations driven by global warming . . . a nuanced account of how myriad factors intertwine to fuel migration . . . [with] poignant portraits . . . Readers will be unnerved."
--Publishers Weekly "Abrahm Lustgarten has written a thoughtful, heartfelt account of how Americans will be--and, in fact, already are being--displaced by climate change.
On the Move explains how we got here and where we're headed. It's crucial guide to the world we are creating."
--Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction "The best way to understand how the climate crisis is changing America - culturally, economically, politically - is to read
On the Move. It's a brilliant, deeply researched look at the transformation that's already underway in places like California and Michigan as people flee wildfires and extreme heat and flooding and imagine new lives in a less risky place. Along the way, Lustgarten grapples with some of the most important questions of our time: As climate impacts accelerate, who will benefit? Who will lose? Will climate-driven migration increase injustice and violence, or will it bring economic growth and a more stable democracy?
On the Move captures the tumult of all this--think of it as a guidebook to the coming chaos of life in a rapidly warming world."
--Jeff Goodell, New York Times-bestselling author of The Heat Will Kill You First "Abrahm Lustgarten has written the best account of one of the least examined but most immediate consequences of climate change.
On the Move is an unflinching guidebook to our near future, aggressively reported, rigorously quantified, as terrifying as it is revelatory. Duluth, here we come."
--Nathaniel Rich, author of Second Nature and Losing Earth "Around one third of global migration is already driven by climate change. How much more will it be in the future? A lot more, as Abrahm Lustgarten carefully forecasts in this important book. Can we both relocate and future-proof ourselves at the same time? That is the great challenge humanity faces in an over-heating world."
--Parag Khanna, author of Move: Where People are Going for a Better Future
