The Biggest Long-Term Climate Threat To Municipal Finances Isn't Hurricanes Or Floods - It's Drought

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2. In general, I don't have any warm fuzzy feelings for small town U.S.A.

Many small towns in the U.S.A. are grim places.

Clyde could be a nice place. I've never been to Clyde.

Mind you, my personal views may not reflect the policies or platforms of the Democratic Party.

Nevertheless, we need to be rebuilding our larger cities, let's say those 150,000 plus in population, to make them attractive affordable places where people generally have small environmental footprints and have the financial resources and political clout to make adequate supplies of fresh water "flow uphill to money" -- by sewage recycling, desalinization, and sophisticated environmentally sensitive water transfer and storage projects.

These newly rebuilt cities might welcome people displaced by global warming from unsustainable small towns.