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How Climate Change Will Reshape Where Americans Live

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The Importance of a National Plan for Adapting to Climate Change

People are moving because cheap housing, plentiful jobs. In some cases, the weather is very nice when it's not too hot, low taxes. So if the goal is in some ways to attract people to parts of the country where they're going to be less prone to natural disasters, how do you do that? I mean, because what is attracting people to the south and west is intentional. It states that say, okay, we want businesses to come here. We want people to move here. And in fact, it seems like in many cases, the opposite is actually happening.

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