Miami during Hurricane Irma in 2017. Image by Kevin Hagan for the NY Times
“Climate Change,” according to Ban Ki Moon and Francis Suarez, writing in the New York Times, here, “is not a distant threat for Miami; it’s a daily presence in people’s lives. The city has been fighting to stay above water for decades. It knows that its future as a vibrant international hub for business, tourism, arts and culture depends on making the city more resilient to the impact of global warming.”
Eileen Mignoni, In “Flooding is the new normal in Miami In Miami,” here, in Yale Climate Connections, wrote, “sea-level rise is not a problem for future generations. It’s a present-day reality.
Moon, the former Secretary General of the U.N. and Suarez, Miami’s Mayor, wrote,