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The Real Cost of Climate Failure is the Imperative to Respond to Unprecedented Change.
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The Real Cost of Climate Failure is the Imperative to Respond to Unprecedented Change.

A transformed planet is an even bigger challenge than the challenge of transforming our economy for sustainability. We still have only begun to grapple with this truth.
Alex Steffen
Mar 19, 2024
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Floodwaters rising on the Missouri River, 2011. Image: Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, public domain

Hey folks—

To my mind, the most fundamental way in which our climate debate lags behind reality is the inability to grasp the depth of societal change that’s now inevitable.

Discontinuous changes in natural systems will increasingly become …

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