Here’s What A Civilian Climate Corps Might Look Like

Alexander C. Kaufman, Mother Jones
Sun, 04/18/2021 - 3:00am

This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s December 2025, the end of a difficult year. Just a few months earlier, a massive hurricane destroyed dozens of homes in your town, even killed a few of your neighbors. Your house was fine, but you lost power for weeks.

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