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35% increase in less than 20 years. much faster than most metro areas. notably, one part of houston's population influx came from new orleans residents displaced by hurricane katrina in 2005. roughly 250,000 residents took refuge in houston following that storm and an estimated 25,000 to 40,000 of those folks still remain in houston today. houston is also a very diverse city. since 2000, its white, non-hispanic population has declined from 42% to 30% while at the same time the hispanic population has risen from 33 to 42% and this could present another set of challenges to the recovery efforts....

Their homes? can they rebuild? are they eligible for federal dollars? the population explosion also comes with consequences. between 2000 and 2015 over 400,000 housing units were constructed in the houston area for the population explosion, and houston has had to pave the way literally for these new residents. harris county has 35,000 lane miles of road. bexar county, home to san antonio, is similar in size geographically to harris county, but is less than half of the amount of lane miles of road. why does this matter? all of this development has led to the paving over of wetlands and prairies...

35% increase in less than t20 years. one part of houston's population came from new orleans displaced from 2005. people took refuge from the storm. an estimated of those folks remains in houston today. houston is a diverse city. since 2000s its white population declined and hispanic population risen from 33% to 42%. this could present another set of challenge to the recovery efforts. half a million area of residents are undocumented immigrants. what happens to these folks? can they rebuild? population explosions also come with consequences. between 2000s and 2015, over 400,000 housing units we...

Jobs. 10,000 of them live in this area. there are so many there's actually a government consulate. and with climate change, more people are probably on the way. >> a person called me and said, carmen, if you thought about climate change refugees. >> we would have to come here to live here because global warming keeps making the gloofloods wor the island will disappear. >> if our country sinks, so much of our culture will disappear as well. we're beginning to lose our culture with where we are. >> for now, moving to spring dale is a choice, but flooding could start forcing people out. >> the im...

People out. >> we will probably have a population explosion. >> reporter: in other words, springdale arkansas could become the new marshall islands. >> year' just starting to build our foundation. how we start now will affect our future for our kids. >> reporter: but here's thing. if nothing changes, marshallese kids won't have any choice about whether to move back to their home. those islands, their country won't exist, and that's my fault and yours if you're living in the industrialized world. it's up to us to cut carbon emissions and fast. otherwise, what now is a climate migration will lik...