Hurricane Ian is the New Normal

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When Hurricane Ian destroyed western Cuba before cutting a devastating trail of ruined lives and ravaged communities across Florida, the state’s governor called it a once in a 500-year storm.

Actually, it’s the new normal.

As the past five years have shown, the climate emergency is fully upon us. Floods in the Arabian desert. Rain where it hasn’t fallen for decades.

Fires break out in the Boreal forest, melting permafrost.

Everywhere one looks, rampant pollution, the climate crisis and mass extinction continue to consume our planet.

It’s going to get worse.

And where are we?

Standing in the rubble of coastal Florida, a climate denier asked if taxing carbon would have prevented the disaster. Of course not. We can’t stop climate change. It is the height of human arrogance to think that the forces of nature are within our control. But we will adapt. We will mitigate. We will build resilience.