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We Don’t See What Climate Change Is Doing to Us

Outlet: The New York Times

Wharton Climate Center Affiliated Scholar R. Jisung Park’s writes about how we don’t see what climate change is doing to us, and the changes we must make to our social and economic systems to survive the escalating warming.

Many of us realize climate change is a threat to our well being. But what we have not yet grasped is that the devastation wreaked by climate change is often just as much about headline-grabbing catastrophes as it is about the subtler accumulation of innumerable slow and unequal burns that are already underway — the nearly invisible costs that may not raise the same alarm but that, in their pervasiveness and inequality, may be much more harmful than commonly realized. Recognizing these hidden costs will be essential as we prepare ourselves for the warming that we have ahead of us.