opinion
IT NEVER ENDS
COVID is just the beginning. Hurricanes and wildfires and other climate-related crises are going to take more of the next president’s time than he can imagine.
Jeff Schlegelmilch is director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, and the author of the book Rethinking Readiness: A Brief Guide to Twenty-First-Century Megadisasters from Columbia University Press. Follow him on twitter @jeffschlegel.