For the residents of my community in Kinston, North Carolina, each hurricane season brings anxiety and the fear of another potential catastrophe. We remain hopeful — yet we are painfully aware that another bad storm would mean disaster for our home.
This month, North Carolinians battened down the hatches for Hurricane Dorian, the latest in a string of powerful storms to collide with our state. Communities in our state — especially in the heavily-impacted Outer Banks region — experienced blackouts, destroyed homes, and damaged local economies. This latest storm comes on the heels of Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Florence in 2018, which wreaked havoc on North Carolina's health, well-being, and economy. With scientists now definitively saying that human-caused climate change plays a significant role in making storms stronger, we have to tackle the root of the problem.
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