By Michael J. Coren, Naema Ahmed and Kevin Crowe, Washington Post
How do you pick a safe place to live? Climate scientists predict an intensifying barrage of hurricanes, droughts, wildfires, flooding and sea-level rise in many places. These disasters are already threatening, and even demolishing, homes.
But risk is not all. Resilience, the capacity to rebound from adversity, can matter just as much. Climate modeling firm AlphaGeo analyzes 28 factors, from life expectancy to infrastructure spending, to assess a location’s true vulnerability.
Overlaying risk and resilience is a road map to a community’s future. It paints a picture of why a place is positioned to thrive or struggle because climate change won’t be a singular disaster. It’s a succession of stresses, some small, others devastating.
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