Category: climate change

Adapting to climate change will only get more expensive

A new estimate puts the cost of adapting and repairing coastal infrastructure damaged by climate change in the United States at hundreds of billions annually. The sooner adaptation planning begins, the less expensive it will be.

Sofie’s World: Raising a child during the climate crisis and growing up in the age of the Anthropocene 

My daughter Sofie was born in April 2021, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and in a decade in which climate change is increasingly high on the global agenda. Sofie’s World is a series of articles in which I reflect on parenthood in the context of the climate crisis and what it might be like for her growing up in the era of the Anthropocene.