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Building a Resilient Tomorrow - How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption (Paperback)
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Building a Resilient Tomorrow - How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption (Paperback)
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Climate change impacts-more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and
stronger storms-have already harmed communities around the globe.
Even if the world could cut its carbon emissions to zero tomorrow,
further significant global climate change is now inevitable.
Although we cannot tell with certainty how much average global
temperatures will rise, we do know that the warming we have
experienced to date has caused significant losses, and that the
failure to prepare for the consequences of further warming may
prove to be staggering. Building a Resilient Tomorrow does not
dwell on overhyped descriptions of apocalyptic climate scenarios,
nor does it travel down well-trodden paths surrounding the politics
of reducing carbon emissions. Instead, it starts with two central
facts: climate impacts will continue to occur, and we can make
changes now to mitigate their effects. While squarely confronting
the scale of the risks we face, this pragmatic guide focuses on
solutions-some gradual and some more revolutionary-currently being
deployed around the globe. Each chapter presents a thematic lesson
for decision-makers and engaged citizens to consider, outlining
replicable successes and identifying provocative recommendations to
strengthen climate resilience. Between animated discussions of
ideas as wide-ranging as managed retreat from coastal hot-zones to
biological approaches for resurgent climate-related disease
threats, Alice Hill and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz draw on their
personal experiences as senior officials in the Obama
Administration to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really
takes to advance progress on these issues. The narrative is dotted
with tales of on-the-ground citizenry, from small-town mayors and
bankers to generals and engineers, who are chipping away at
financial disincentives and bureaucratic hurdles to prepare for
life on a warmer planet. For readers exhausted by today's
paralyzing debates on yearly "fluke" storms or the existence of
climate change, Building a Resilient Tomorrow offers better ways to
manage the risks in a warming planet, even as we work to limit
global temperature rise.
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