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3.5 ⭐️ please take my rating with a grain of salt because I have come to the realization that while I love nonfiction audiobooks I just can’t physically read nonfiction. It literally feels like a chore (especially during my fun goofy Rick Riordan summer). This book took me reading it off and on from February to July and considering the book is less than 300 pages it’s just not a good look (mostly for me, somewhat for the book). This book was very informative and I did learn quite a bit but it just wasn’t engrossing until the last two sections.
Bittle definitely did his research for this book and the amount of first hand experiences he got was quite impressive. However, I found that since he used examples of so many people’s climate displacement stories it started to feel repetitive even when the stories were very different because the main points were the same. I think for me this book really shines in the last two sections where Bittle discusses more of the less discussed or considered climate impacts that will cause displacement (reoccurring floods and heat) and the trends of how people disperse after climate disasters and what that will mean for the populations of more temperate/climate protected states and cities. Both sections raised points that I had not experienced, considered, or talked much about in my college classes.
So, All In all read at your own risk as it has its good parts but it felt like a literal chore to get through.
My final takeaway is this: Michigan is looking pretty good right about now