Why can’t we project additional places like this and begin investing in infrastructure and growth in those places?

This might be better than rebuilding in poor places.

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Jesse Keenan, an urban-planning and climate-change specialist then at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, who advises the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission on market hazards from climate change. Keenan, who is now an associate professor of real estate at Tulane University’s School of Architecture, had been in the news last year for projecting where people might move to — suggesting that Duluth, Minnesota, for instance, should brace for a coming real estate boom as climate migrants move north. 1


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  1. Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration | syndication link↩︎


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September 15, 2020