Analysts and investors have long trumpeted \u2018climate-proof\u2019 US communities, but recent disasters show the need for a different way of thinking<\/p>\n
A few years ago, while visiting a tiny village, I toured a grand old community hall scheduled to be demolished after a historic flood. Across the street, a phantom row of eight buildings had already come down. Next to go was this beloved structure, built with local lumber by the craftsman grandfathers of the people who still lived there. One of the two local officials escorting me had been married here, she told me. There was a plan to repurpose the six soaring arches, the other official said, gazing towards the ceiling. \u201cThe other part of it, knocking the rest of it down \u2026 ,\u201d he trailed off, emotionally. \u201cI won\u2019t be in town to see that.\u201d<\/p>\n
This village isn\u2019t located on the rapidly eroding Gulf coast, or any coast. It isn\u2019t on the edge of a drought-stricken wildland. It isn\u2019t anywhere typically named as existentially threatened due to the impacts of climate change. Forever altered by floods, the village of Rock Springs, in my home state of Wisconsin, is instead located smack in the middle of what\u2019s often been called a \u201cclimate haven\u201d.<\/p>\n
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