What Climate Change Will Do to America by MidCentury
News Source : The Atlantic
News Summary
- Octavia Butler wrote a dystopian novel set in the mid-2020s in which the U.S. has been warped by global warming.
- In her novel, states and cities erect strict borders to deter migrants, the gap between rich and poor has widened, and massive wildfires in Southern California drive the state’s decline.
- “All I did was look around at the problems we’re neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters,” Butler wrote in 2000.
Earlier this year, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, a graveyard was spared by the fire that sent thousands of Los Angeles residents fleeing into the coalblack night. Here, in Mountain [+43687 chars]
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