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Climate Change Is Bankrupting America’s Small Towns

Al Leonard, who divides time as a planner for five communities, presents a park proposal in the small and struggling rural town of Fair Bluff, N.C., on June 16, 2021. Fair Bluff was badly flooded in Hurricane Matthew and is on the brink of bankruptcy. “If you look at what the folks here called downtown, really the only business that came back was the U.S. Post Office,” Leonard said. (Mike Belleme/The New York Times)