[r00fus]

More likely - dried out husks of small cities that shrivel up and die. Look to the US rust belt as a historical indicator.

For modern times, climate change has made it impossible to insure some areas of the US (Norther CA fire country, Florida hurricane corridor, etc). Insurers are going out of business or just not paying claims.

[bequanna]

Small cities died because of increased crop farming efficiency, factory livestock farming and decreased heavy industry/manufacturing in the US.

I absolutely love the doomerism in your second paragraph. If you listen to those who buy into the whole climate armageddon thing, you would think that by 2030 large swaths of the US are going to be uninhabitable or under water.

No, the West isn’t going to burn away. We just need to resume good forestry practices and not build houses in precarious places.

Similarly in FL, this has little to do with “climate change” but rather an elimination of Government subsidized risk taking so the full insurance cost is bore by the property owners and not taxpayers.