Want to Escape Climate Change? Come to Asheville
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Climate haven: More people moving to Asheville to escape more severe climate change impact
by Anjali PatelFriday, April 22nd 2022 wlos.com
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VIEW ALL PHOTos APRIL 22, 2022 - As climate change makes severe weather events even worse elsewhere in the country and even the world, Asheville is among the top cities to which people are moving to escape severe climate change, as the mountains are seen as a "climate haven." (Photo credit: WLOS staff)
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — When it comes to climate, the mountains have always been an attractive place to live.
Now -- even more so -- as climate change makes severe weather events even worse elsewhere.
"Weather events are becoming crazy all over the world, and there's places where they're less crazy. Asheville is fortunate to be one of those places," said Mike Figura, the owner and broker of Mosaic Realty.
More people are taking refuge in the temperate mountains of Western North Carolina. Figura said he's hearing that climate is a big reason why people are moving here. It's often referred to as climate migration.
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Climate haven: More people moving to Asheville to escape more severe climate change impact
"I think people have noticed and are moving here to escape wildfires, to escape floods, to escape hurricanes, to escape droughts," Figura said. "We'll just count our blessings we're not getting hit as hard as other places."
Scott Shuford is a local expert in community planning and resilience who studies these issues for a living.
"Our big three issues of climate change affecting North Carolina are sea level rise, which clearly, we're not having a problem with that, but also heavy precipitation and periods of drought," said Shuford, a principal with Case Consultants International.
He said those don't affect people in Asheville as much, being far from the coast and having the North Fork Reservoir for the main water supply as well as the elevation to keep the temperatures mild. Figura and Shuford emphasized that Asheville is not immune to climate change, of course -- just less susceptible.
APRIL 22, 2022 - As climate change makes severe weather events even worse elsewhere in the country and even the world, Asheville is among the top cities to which people are moving to escape severe climate change, as the mountains are seen as a "climate haven." (Photo credit: WLOS staff)
Shuford said he doesn't think the Asheville area is anywhere near the peak of climate migration to the mountains, though.
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"As sea level rise increases in its rate, we're going to see a lot of people leaving the coast, oftentimes, those are people who have money and are interested in a more active lifestyle, so they'll be coming to places like Asheville," Shuford said. "Sea level rise will drive migration, but people are also becoming more attune to what the effects are on their daily lives from climate change so they're going to look for places that are resilient that they're not going to have to face the challenges that they're facing in their current communities."
He said he believes with more severe climate impacts elsewhere, even more people will want to call Asheville home -- not just from other parts of the country, but even other parts of the world. Shuford said Asheville has made climate resilience a priority.
"We also have to face the fact that we're going to have climate migrants from other countries where they just cannot sustain themselves because of their climate conditions and we have to make sure that we, from a human morality standpoint, to try to accommodate those folks," Shuford said.
While Asheville's temperate climate is something to be proud of -- is the area prepared for even more people wanting to move here?
"Anything that increases the number of people that want to move to Asheville is putting strains on our limited housing stock, so hopefully we'll see more building happening to ease that up," Figura said.
Shuford said as the area tries to accommodate a growing population, there is a need to focus on smart and dense development, being careful not to ruin what makes it such an ideal place to live.
He and Figura hope Asheville remains the climate resilient place it is.
"Fingers crossed it continues to stay that way. I think as long as it does, Asheville's going to remain one of the top places for people to move," Figura said.
Shuford added that he hopes other communities in the mountains make climate resiliency a priority, too.
"I would challenge other communities in the area to look at the efforts Asheville has made to make itself more resilient and for them to do the same thing," Shuford said.
Comments
...Climate change is BS??...What?...
...Severe thunderstorms, tornados, hurricanes, blizzards, drought, heat waves...oh wait, we always have/had thesetypes of storms...someone needs to tell these loons, its called "weather"...
I always laugh at what the media defines as 'Best Places to Live" in the USA, especially when over the years Seattle and Portland have made the list.
If you are homeless, like free stuff, and are a DEMOCRAT its understandable.
Old enough to remember when Asheville was a great place to visit and live, then again so was Philly and Baltimore. Then came the D_________Ts
Asheville is known as the wicca capitol of the east coast. You just got to love an abundance of witches and warlocks. I don't believe in witchcraft but I do believe that the so called witches/warlocks are slap plumb nuts so it is a good area to avoid!
Ah! Asheville! aka Boulder East. 45 sq miles surrounded by reality. Beautiful area, but they need to spray for dingbats.
I lived in near Asheville a few years ago when it was a mostly a good ole boy town.That is what I refer to as the pre-kook era.I still have to do business in Asheville and it is rare to run into anyone with a western North Carolina accent.The vast majority of Asheville residents are from somewhere else.
Makes one wonder why Pelosi bought a $25M spread on the coast of FL if it’s going to join the lost city of Atlantis.
One down.
climate change “activists” set himself on fire in front of the Supreme Court.