The following articles a couple years old but still …

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/16/us-climate-change-americans-census-data

Parts of the US are getting dangerously hot. Yet Americans are moving the wrong way

The Census Bureau’s new map of the last decade’s population trends shows big growth in the west and on the coasts – and declines in the inland east coast and Great Lakes region.

Now compare that map to ProPublica maps documenting the areas most at risk of extreme heat, wildfires and flooding, and you see the problem. While there has been some recent anecdotal evidence of pragmatic climate migration, overall the census data shows America’s population growth is shifting out of areas that may be the best refuges from the most extreme effects of climate change, and into many areas that are most at risk.

Some of the examples are genuinely mind-boggling. For instance, upstate New York is considered one of the country’s most insulated regions in the climate crisis – and yet almost all of upstate New York saw population either nearly flat or declining. At the same time, there were big population increases in and around the Texas Gulf coast, which is threatened by extreme heat and coastal flooding.

I take issue with the mind boggling quip, this level of stupid is after all why we’re in this mess.

They want to pretend that nothing must fundamentally change – even though we’re already seeing that everything is changing faster than ever.