Why isn’t Hurricane Beryl inspi ring bipartisan climate action?

July 19, 2024

In the southern United States, the ripple effects of a devastating natural disaster are still occurring. Houston residents, who were already impacted by Hurricane Beryl, are facing a severe heat wave that is amplifying the damages of the hurricane and increasing the risk of death.

Overlapping, extreme events such as these are becoming more and more common in America, pushing climate change from an amorphous threat happening “somewhere else,” to an infrastructural and economic problem happening to the nation at large.

Manann Donoghoe and Andre M. Perry argue that Democrats and Republicans need to take the climate threat seriously and reignite a bipartisan platform for action grounded in disaster risk reduction.

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