The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season was one of the deadliest and costliest on record. Facing the loss of human life as well as property destruction can make it both more challenging and more critical to solve a crisis that promises to hit the same neighborhoods — and hard — again and again.
Extreme weather events are part of life on Earth. However, human-caused climate change has increased their frequency and severity. Burning dirty energy sources produces the heat-trapping pollution that increases temperatures and upends weather systems, burdening coastal communities in particular and often disproportionately impacting marginalized populations.
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