Planning the Next Great Migration

Dear readers: I’ve now finished posting the Internet version of the text of my book, and don’t have anything more to post.

I could keep putting up posts whenever I see something happening that fits my hypothesis. For example, the 1800-person Rio Verde Foothills in Arizona has recently had its water supply cut off by the large neighboring city of Scottsdale, whose water mostly comes from the Colorado River. The town wants to form a local water district to do something to provide a water supply, but the Maricopa County supervisors can and did forbid them to do so because a democratically chosen water district would be “government.” (It will not surprise you that four out of five supervisors are Republicans.) The supervisors want to force the community to become dependent upon a private international corporation—but that corporation would require Scottsdale to treat the water it provided, to make it safe to use, and Scottsdale has refused. Rio Verde Foothills, by the way, is hardly disadvantaged; it’s a residential area consisting largely of well-to-do white people. Yet they’re now getting their water by the gallon from a guy with a tank in the back of his truck.

Sadly, we are going to see more and more stories like this as decline and factionalism escalate, too many to make posts about. I don’t have the time to do a good job of aggregating news, and frankly, I don’t have enough readers to make the effort seem worthwhile. Also, it would bury the posts on potential refugia to which I hope others may eventually contribute. So, I’ll just say to anyone who may be reading this: keep your eyes open, and you’ll see evidences of where we are going.

I truly believe that many Americans do not have much time to get out of the places where they are now living before climate or more direct human action makes their lives unbearable. The environmental movement has not been willing to address this probability. I hoped to change the discourse, at least among a minority, but so far, I regret that I have done a poor job of attracting attention to my opinions. My book is available as a PDF from Internet Archive, so I would ask any readers here to please consider sharing that document or its URL with anyone you know who might find parts of it to be of interest.

If anyone has comments on suitable destinations for migration to Eastern states, or on any other aspects of our current predicament that I have discussed, please feel free at any time to make a comment on the post relating to the state or topic in question. Anonymous comments get held by the website, but I’ll get an email to let me know they exist, and I’ll stop by when I can and approve them. At the moment this blog is not serving the purpose of a place for active discussion of our options, but if there should be any interest at all in making it such in future, I’ll be happy to step up and moderate. And finally, thanks very much to those of you who have done me the honor of reading my writing over the past several months.