North Coast Chronicles investigates the Great Lakes as a climate haven with the May episode, "Climate Migration and the Great Lakes." with Ms. Rachel Jaocbson, Deputy Director of the American Society of Adaptation Professionals. Will the climate amenities of the Great Lakes pull people from the four corners of the U.S. under increasing climate change impacts? Migration drivers incorporate the "pull" factors related to jobs, family and cultural interests, but also the "push" factors related to loss of job and natural disasters. In 2017, 5,000 migrants from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria moved to the self-defined "climate haven" of Buffalo, NY. But, what are the true impacts of a migration influx and how does the Great Lakes region attend, first, to the current and real threats from climate change?

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