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The Importance of Resilience to Climate Risks

There are coastal defenses that we can build to try to insulate ourselves from modest levels of sea level rise. Once sea levels get too high, then ultimately you have to start retreating away from the encroaching seas and that's very expensive. When it comes to agriculture, there are ways to use different cultivars, to grow different crops, to try different strategies of crop rotation. In the best case scenario, we've got to live with that, but we can prevent them from getting worse.

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