Adapting to Climate Change Will Take More than Just Sea Walls and Levees
I started to care about climate change on a warm October night in 2015. I’d been studying the Earth and its climate for years, and my work sometimes gave me a vague sense of unease. But it felt abstract, easy to put aside, never my most pressing concern.
The minute my son was born, though, the future was no longer theoretical. Climate projections generated by computer models aren’t abstract anymore—they’re glimpses into my baby’s adult world. I know it will be warmer and stranger and, perhaps, more dangerous to live there. We can take action to mitigate these changes, but we owe it to our children to prepare them for a warmer world. We need to start adapting now.
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