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Climate Change Is Bankrupting America’s Small Towns

Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church, which was damaged by flooding, but is set to be refurbished, in Princeville, N.C., August 18, 2021. Princeville, the first town in America chartered by freed slaves, has flooded badly in repeated hurricanes. As residents left and tax revenue shrank, so did the town’s civic role. (Mike Belleme/The New York Times)