When I think about climate change, I think about not the cost, I think about good- paying jobs it’ll create. The country couldn’t “ignore the reality that these wildfires are being supercharged by climate change,” he said. “Climate change impacts can’t be absolved in a single year,” said Roy Wright, who was in charge of risk mitigation at the Federal Emergency Management Agency until 2018. And Mr. Biden has asked Congress to approve measures that would reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. “Folks, there is something called building codes, and land-use ordinances, and they’re really good, and they really work when applied,” Ms. Steinberg offered as the message Mr. Biden could convey.

Source: International New York Times September 13, 2021 13:07 UTC