Speaking for the US many populated arid areas are completely unsustainable as population centers (ironically also where most people in the US have been moving for awhile now), especially because water resources haven’t been managed rationally in many arid areas. This story will absolutely be a global one though, see Tehran for one massive example, Lake Mead for another. No water and deadly heat waves are going to make for limitless ghost town tourism attraction opportunities!
The future is bright for abandoned building photography communities!
I suspect coal country in Kentucky, WV and rural PA and Virginia and the western plains in Nebraska and Kansas, which are already severely stressed with population loss, will see some real ghost towns soon. Especially if the Ogallala aquifer dries up in the latter case.
Not a big guardian fan but I just saw an article about such towns pertaining to Trump cutting the funding that was earmarked to help those kinds of towns transition away from coal.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/29/trump-coal-country
Not a big Guardians fan??? Surely you can’t deny that Jose Rameriez is one of the greatest in the game today!!! Go Guards!
…we’re talking baseball right?
Well it was really the whole Vin Diesel I am Groot thing that didn’t click for me. Otherwise the music in it was pretty great.
A lot of the small towns in Nebraska and Kansas will be ghost towns when the few boomers that still live there pass away as all of the younger generations have already moved away.
no jobs in small towns/rural areas or even red areas unfortunately, so they all move close to big cities.
is that why they are redistricting/gerrymandering so hard in recent years too? it make sense.