Source: WUNC, 3/17/21


By 2100 coastal communities could experience sea-levels up to 8 feet higher than in 2000. Some scholars predict 13 million people could be displaced and likely to migrate to "safe cities." Back in 2006, when Scott Shuford was Asheville’s planning director, he reluctantly accepted a friend’s invitation to attend a meeting about the impact of climate change on local governments. “I didn’t see how a two-degree temperature change could affect the community,” he recalled, referring to the predicted rise in earth...

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