Preparing for Disasters We Don’t Want to Think About

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🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The COVID-19 pandemic revealed structural weaknesses and inequities that existed long before 2020. Like COVID-19, climate change is another “threat multiplier,” with the power to disrupt many of our social systems. In her new book, The Fight for Climate After COVID-19, Alice Hill says we need to adapt our thinking and our policies to combat the ever-increasing threat of climate change. Especially when we see more compound disasters – like a wildfire followed by a mudslide. “We need to come together to understand the risks, understand the vulnerabilities and then start making decisions with the support and the aid of the federal government to have better outcomes,” Hill says. What changes can we make now to better prepare for future risks and climate disasters? Guests: Alice Hill, author, The Fight for Climate After COVID-19, Senior Fellow for Climate Change Policy, Council on Foreign Relations Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Thomas P. Bostick, Former Commanding General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Francis Suarez, Mayor of Miami Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.8	This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. How can we prepare for a future wholly unlike the past we've known?
0:38.3	We need to come together to understand the risks, understand our vulnerabilities,
0:43.3	and then start making decisions with the support and the aid of the federal government to have better outcomes.
0:51.3	We have proven examples of resilient solutions, but they take time, money, and foresight.
0:56.9	Our country, when put to task, can build a system that can reduce risk.
1:02.0	We can't protect people from climate change, but we can reduce the risk.
1:05.8	Despite increasingly severe storms and sunny day flooding, the mayor of Miami says continued waterfront development isn't crazy.
1:13.6	I think there are some that for whatever reason feel that Miami will not exist in 10 years or in 20 years or in 100 years.
1:20.6	And that's certainly not an acceptable outcome for me.
1:23.6	How do we prepare for the disasters we don't want to think about? Before we get into our
1:29.2	conversation on building climate resilience, we're continuing our weekly spotlight on the upcoming
1:34.3	international climate summit in Glasgow. The day after the 2020 presidential election, the U.S.
1:40.9	exited the Paris Climate Agreement, a non-binding international framework to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and keep a lid on global warming.
1:49.8	The decision to quit the Global Climate Accord dented U.S. credentials as a reliable partner in the fight against climate disruption.
1:57.8	Can the Biden administration undo the damage and reestablish the nation's reputation
2:02.3	at this year's COP 26? Climate One correspondent Amman Azar reports. Former President Trump's
2:09.5	decision to unilaterally and abruptly quit the Paris Agreement created doubts about whether
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