The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 by Hill, Alice C.;

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Publisher OUP USA
Date of Publication 13 January 2022

ISBN 9780197549704
Binding Hardback
No. of pages272 pages
Size 144x221x24 mm
Weight 386 g
Language English
Illustrations 11 figures

Short description:

The world's experience with the COVID-19 pandemic has vividly demonstrated not only the untold cost on human and economic health associated with a failure to prepare, but also the significant power of collective action to alter the spread of the disease. The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 uses the lessons of 2020 to argue, unequivocally, why the time to scale up resilience to the mounting effects of climate change is now.

Long description:

COVID-19 exposed the world's failure to prepare for the worst -- can we learn to build back better?

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit our world on a scale beyond living memory, taking millions of lives and leading to a lockdown of communities worldwide. A pandemic, much like climate change, acts as a threat multiplier, increasing vulnerability to harm, economic impoverishment, and the breakdown of social systems. Even more concerning, communities severely impacted by the coronavirus still remain vulnerable to other types of hazards, such as those brought by accelerating climate change. The catastrophic risks of pandemics and climate change carry deep uncertainty as to when they will occur, how they will unfold, and how much damage they will do. The most important question is how we can face these risks to minimize them most.

The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 draws on the troubled and uneven COVID-19 experience to illustrate the critical need to ramp up resilience rapidly and effectively on a global scale. After years of working alongside public health and resilience experts crafting policy to build both pandemic and climate change preparedness, Alice C. Hill exposes parallels between the underutilized measures that governments should have taken to contain the spread of COVID-19 -- such as early action, cross-border planning, and bolstering emergency preparation -- and the steps leaders can take now to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Through practical analyses of current policy and thoughtful guidance for successful climate adaptation, The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 reveals that, just as our society has transformed itself to meet the challenge of coronavirus, so too will we need to adapt our thinking and our policies to combat the ever-increasing threat of climate change.

Unapologetic and clear-eyed, The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 helps us understand why the time has come to prepare for the world as it will be, rather than as it once was.

The strength and subtlety of Hill's observations shine throughout as her personal experiences are interwoven with cutting-edge research ... For now, this book is the policy roadmap we have been waiting for. The book gives us the lessons we need to overcome institutional inertia and respond to climate change. Hill's framework of 'no more' moments allows her to address controversial issues while avoiding partisan pitfalls or alarmism. Undoubtedly, Hill is at the vanguard of a wave of thinkers proposing clearly articulated solutions to a well-defined problem.