What Cities Can Teach About Weathering Storms: Lara Williams

Raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimized by bad weather in the last year or so. Was your travel disrupted? Did your home get unbearably hot? Have you been impacted by flooding? When I asked these questions at a panel event recently, only a lucky few in the audience kept their hands down.

Even if we weren’t individually experiencing climate change, we’d want our communities to avoid these inconveniences and tragedies. After all, human societies can’t thrive underwater, which is why the Netherlands has some of the best flood management systems in the world.

Yet emissions from burning fossil fuels are baking the ...