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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.
COVID-19 exposed the world's failure to prepare for the worst - can
we learn to build back better? The COVID-19 pandemic has hit our
world on a scale beyond living memory, taking millions of lives and
leading to a lockdown of communities worldwide. A pandemic, much
like climate change, acts as a threat multiplier, increasing
vulnerability to harm, economic impoverishment, and the breakdown
of social systems. Even more concerning, communities severely
impacted by the coronavirus still remain vulnerable to other types
of hazards, such as those brought by accelerating climate change.
The catastrophic risks of pandemics and climate change carry deep
uncertainty as to when they will occur, how they will unfold, and
how much damage they will do. The most important question is how we
can face these risks to minimize them most. The Fight for Climate
after COVID-19 draws on the troubled and uneven COVID-19 experience
to illustrate the critical need to ramp up resilience rapidly and
effectively on a global scale. After years of working alongside
public health and resilience experts crafting policy to build both
pandemic and climate change preparedness, Alice C. Hill exposes
parallels between the underutilized measures that governments
should have taken to contain the spread of COVID-19 - such as early
action, cross-border planning, and bolstering emergency preparation
- and the steps leaders can take now to mitigate the impacts of
climate change. Through practical analyses of current policy and
thoughtful guidance for successful climate adaptation, The Fight
for Climate after COVID-19 reveals that, just as our society has
transformed itself to meet the challenge of coronavirus, so too
will we need to adapt our thinking and our policies to combat the
ever-increasing threat of climate change. Unapologetic and
clear-eyed, The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 helps us
understand why the time has come to prepare for the world as it
will be, rather than as it once was.
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