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Scientists have built consensus around the probability that more powerful floods, fires, droughts and storms will occur with higher frequency as the Earth gets hotter.

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Applying the lessons from COVID-19 to climate change

If our eyes have been opened by the experience of the pandemic, maybe we can better anticipate the exponential harms caused by climate change?

By Robert Muir-Wood | April 20, 2021 at 05:00 AM
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The COVID-19 pandemic provided a collective understanding and appreciation of the impact of exponential growth. To that end, this contributor writes, maybe it is time to elevate the status of what is a climate emergency. (ALM Media archives) The COVID-19 pandemic provided a collective understanding and appreciation of the impact of exponential growth. To that end, this contributor writes, maybe it is time to elevate the status of what is a climate emergency. (ALM Media archives)

Even for those of us who have been in the risk management sector for a while, I think COVID-19 represents our first experience with a rapidly growing exponential harm.

Going back to the first months of 2020, the advancing pandemic saw numbers of those infected and dying doubling, unremittingly, every three or four days. Projecting out a month or two, it was feared that without any intervention, fatalities were set to rise into the hundreds of thousands.

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