“Once you start to look, danger signs of Old World infrastructure are everywhere. How many blackouts will it take before we realize today’s power grid was built for yesterday’s climate?”
– Journalist and
The Heat Will Kill You First (2023) author
Jeff Goodell, warning that “we have built our world for a climate that no longer exists.” Considering recent extreme weather-induced emergencies like the collapse of the aging Houston power grid and the failure of Manhattan’s historic Third Avenue Bridge, Goodell argues that “we need to rebuild our world.”
