What can we do to prepare for climate disaster?

Climate One conversations feature oil companies and environmentalists,

Republicans and Democrats, the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate challenge.

I'm Greg Dalton.

I'm Greg Dalton. Climate-fueled floods, fires, droughts, and hurricanes are on the rise.

As severe weather hammers our cities and devastates our wilderness, who will pay to shore up infrastructure and rebuild communities?

In her book, Building a Resilient Tomorrow,

How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption,

Alice Hill warns that the consequences of failing to prepare

for further global warming will be staggering.

Unfortunately, the events are occurring so quickly,

and we're going to see storm surge,

greater on the East Coast, more intense hurricanes, on the West Coast,

sea little rise causing erosion, that even if people don't choose to retreat,

things are just going to fall into the sea.

On today's program, we'll talk about managing the costs and consequences of the growing climate threat.

My guests on the Climate One stage are Alice Hill, senior fellow for climate change policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Janet Ruiz, Communications Director at the Insurance Information Institute.

Joining us from Washington, D.C. as Sherry Goodman, senior strategist at the Center for Climate Security,

and former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense in the Clinton administration. During the Obama administration,

Alice Hill was one of the first senior officials to look at resilience policy. She admits that it was a job that nobody wanted.

Well, it was the job of looking at whether the Department of Homeland Security,

this huge, sprawling security agency, essentially one of the largest law enforcement agencies there is,

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