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© Getty Images Our nation’s need to become resilient to the impacts of climate change intensifies every day. Our resilience challenge leaps to our TV screens with increasing frequency when forest fires rage across the West, storms batter the Gulf Coast, droughts and flooding events punish cities and rural communities alike, and polar weather shuts down the Texas power system. Such events reveal the depths of our vulnerability to the stresses and shocks of climate change, which threatens our food, energy, water, transportation and health security and ultimately, our economy and national security. Consider, for example, the fate of too many small businesses the lifeblood of the American economy, generating nearly half of U.S. economic activity. More than 90 percent of small businesses fail within two years of being struck by a disaster, according to the United States Small Business Administration. Yet, the problem is more pervasive than the disasters that make the headlines.

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