Philadelphia Neighborhood Faces Floods, Tough Choices As Climate Crisis Hits "Planet Streets"

By Brandon Goldner, CBS Philadelphia

December 4, 2023

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Along the banks of Cobbs Creek in Southwest Philadelphia's Eastwick neighborhood is an area known as the "Planet Streets."

With street names like Mercury, Mars and Saturn Place, this majority-Black neighborhood is a microcosm of the decisions communities on planet Earth will face because of climate change.

For Eastwick, one of those decisions might be whether homeowners become the first in Philadelphia to move out of their homes entirely because of climate change.

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