Should Minnesota prepare for climate migration?
Wildfires, hurricanes and oppressive heat have pummeled the West and South in recent years. As the planet warms, large swaths of the U.S. will become even hotter and drier.
Where will people go when home becomes unpleasant or unbearable?
One answer is … maybe Minnesota. In fact, climate migration to the state is already happening.
MPR News guest host and Duluth correspondent Dan Kraker talks to a climate migrant who moved her family to Duluth, and a journalist who writes about climate migration.
Guests:
Jamie Alexander is director of Drawdown Labs at Project Drawdown, a climate-focused organization. She moved her family from San Francisco to Duluth in 2020 to escape worsening wildfire seasons in California.
Abrahm Lustgarten is a senior environmental reporter for ProPublica who frequently works with the New York Times Magazine. He’s written about climate migration globally and within the United States. He lives in Marin County, California.
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