The I Index

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

Top of the pile

89

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

83/100

Critics

96/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Jake Bittle

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Date:

February 21, 2023

The untold story of climate migration—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future.

What The Reviewers Say

Cory Oldweiler,
The Boston Globe
As Jake Bittle makes clear in his urgent and unsettling new book The Great Displacement, our time is up.
Michael Schaub,
NPR
[Bittle is] an empathetic writer, but also one with a real gift for explaining the fraught issues — economic, scientific, political — that make the climate crisis and its effect on the population so complex.
Kathleen McBroom,
Booklist
... multifaceted examination of the effects of climate change.
Dante LaRiccia,
Cleveland Review of Books
Bittle aims to examine the array of climatic forces that are eroding our vulnerable communities and the assumptions of climatic stability they were built on.