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Mitigating Climate Impacts Means Meeting Everyoneâs Basic Needs
We must attend to the structural injustices that immiserate so much of this country.
In recent days, the nation watched in horror as an unprecedented winter storm wreaked havoc on Texasâs energy infrastructure, leaving residents without power in sub-freezing temperatures for days on end. We later learned that the state came within a hairâs breadth of a truly catastrophic failure that could have put parts of the grid in the dark for months.Â
The most effective method of minimizing the impacts of climate change on human wellbeing is ensuring that everyoneâs basic needs are met. And presently, our cities have a very long way to go toward meeting this end.