Tapping Ingenuity to Cope With Climate Warming
October 31, 2024
New United Nations reports find that concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached record highs in 2023, and countries are failing to make the emissions cuts needed to curb devastating global warming, according to CBS News. But Bruce Guile and Raj Pandya still see hope—in human ingenuity. “As first steps,” they write in Issues, “we need to be ingenious enough to develop more useful forecasts; invest in applied research for adaptation; plan for the costs and economic consequences of global warming; and strengthen policies for risk mitigation, crisis avoidance, and protection of vulnerable populations.”