Population growth brings greater climate risks to metro areas, report says, but also hope

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globally and 13 million years of life lost due to heat-related causes.

“Drought is going to be one of the largest obstacles rural Arizonans are going to have to figure out," said Chris Boone, a professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University who has authored a book on challenges in urban environments."But we’re all going to have to figure it out for them, because we depend on them for food and their interests are our interests.

Pataki thinks Arizona can also be at the forefront of the kind of necessary change the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is calling for in its new report, if we can get out of our own way. “The heat will be more extreme in the city because the way we’ve built cities traps a lot of heat. So, we’re going to have to change the way we think about building cities, and we can do that," Pataki said.at ASU, in what she calls her"Urban Greening Lab," focuses on ways to add nature back into cities without using much water.

“We’re sort of at the forefront of a lot of these issues now that are being experienced globally because of the extreme environment we live in in Arizona in terms of heat and water and everything," Boone said.

"There are currently a limited number of examples where hard limits with respect to settlement adaptation is present," Solecki said."In general, the report was not able to present details with respect to specific cities or localities."

 

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Why does this article talk about expansion? If we are worried about climate change. Why do we encourage more growth in a desert that has a limited amount of water and very high temps in the summer?

We need more public transport and less cars 🤦‍♂️

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