Article from the New York Times

By Stuart A. Thompson and Yaryna Serkez      Sept. 18, 2020

 

For most of us, climate change can feel like an amorphous threat — with the greatest dangers lingering ominously in the future and the solutions frustratingly out of reach.

So perhaps focusing on today’s real harms could help us figure out how to start dealing with climate change. Here’s one way to do that: by looking at the most significant climate threat unfolding in your own backyard. Read more, check out the graphs and interactive map HERE

 

The Bay Area is home to almost eight million people. Each dot represents 1000 people.

It’s under multiple climate threats, including sea level rise, wildfires, water stress and rainfall.

 

The threat of climate change “will never be here-and-now in people’s minds unless you’re in California today or New Orleans during Katrina,” said Mr. Steinberg, the research director at Four Twenty Seven. “It’s got to be out your window for you to really say it’s having an impact on your life, your livelihood, your retirement plan or whatever it might be.”

We’re bad at contending with threats we can’t see. But with climate fires on one side of the country, climate hurricanes on another and a pandemic that has killed more than 900,000 people worldwide, it’s clear that these threats are devastatingly real.