Designing infrastructure for yesterday’s climate is not just outdated engineering, it’s offhand public policy
Roads should be built to withstand floods. Electrical grids must be hardened against storms and wildfires. Cities must integrate natural infrastructure—wetlands, forests and restored rivers—as the first line of defence against floods and heat.
Canada is entering an era of climate disruption: floods wash away highways, wildfires destroy towns, sea levels rise, and melting permafrost cracks roads. For decades, scientists have studied climate change in Canada’s Arctic where warming is far faster than the global ave...
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