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Climate Change Displacing Small Businesses Beyond Major Disasters
Original: Climate Change Can Cause Small Business Displacement Beyond Major Disasters
A report by Next City argues that climate change is pushing small businesses out of their locations even outside headline-grabbing disasters. Gradual pressures such as rising costs, repeated flooding, heat and shifting local economies can force closures and relocations that never make the news. The piece calls attention to these quieter forms of displacement, urging policymakers and communities to support small firms facing slow-onset climate impacts, not just those hit by storms or wildfires.
Why now: Growing awareness that gradual climate impacts, not only disasters, threaten small business survival is drawing attention.
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