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section--first"><div class="section-divider"><hr class="section-divider"></div><div class="section-content"><div class="section-inner sectionLayout--insetColumn"><h1 name="4d60" id="4d60" class="graf graf--h3 graf--leading graf--title">Hurricane Harvey Reminds Us the South Will Bear the Brunt of Climate Change</h1><h2 name="4976" id="4976" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--h3 graf--subtitle">From Rita and Katrina to Harvey and Irma, climate change threatens our most vulnerable communities.</h2></div><div class="section-inner sectionLayout--fullWidth"><figure name="8058" id="8058" class="graf graf--figure graf--layoutFillWidth graf-after--h4"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 56.2%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*NYTzbPwJia__9FFy4guZxw.jpeg" data-width="1600" data-height="899" data-is-featured="true" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*NYTzbPwJia__9FFy4guZxw.jpeg"></div><figcaption class="imageCaption">Source: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/32368051@N08/36966100195/in/photolist-YjyVH6-Y7d9Mc-XHxgV9-YmEY5M-XHxgVj-Y7cmyv-Y3VSKx-YfUv2T-YfUsnp-WZ7B5C-Y4tptf-XeKrqZ-Y9KW7G-X3L1Km-Y2ZbFC-Xcj85J-Y31Gm7-XHxgVQ-Ydi6bE-Ybmawo-XTiwYV-Ydi1YS-YgiWCv-Y7cmzH-Y4rv4N-XMx7tj-T58Ysr-X4NgRc-Y1awe3-XRjjnJ-Xafp7x-Y7cmz2-XbUkGp-Y7cmzc-XMDuwf-XFnW7w-XHxgWb-XPKLBN-X1NKsy-Y2YmLu-XS1AxY-WZfGDs-TVHtqf-YjyVHr-X9d8vT-Y4rv6w-WTuK8o-X3M1FG-Y4tptq-XuCsyb" data-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/32368051@N08/36966100195/in/photolist-YjyVH6-Y7d9Mc-XHxgV9-YmEY5M-XHxgVj-Y7cmyv-Y3VSKx-YfUv2T-YfUsnp-WZ7B5C-Y4tptf-XeKrqZ-Y9KW7G-X3L1Km-Y2ZbFC-Xcj85J-Y31Gm7-XHxgVQ-Ydi6bE-Ybmawo-XTiwYV-Ydi1YS-YgiWCv-Y7cmzH-Y4rv4N-XMx7tj-T58Ysr-X4NgRc-Y1awe3-XRjjnJ-Xafp7x-Y7cmz2-XbUkGp-Y7cmzc-XMDuwf-XFnW7w-XHxgWb-XPKLBN-X1NKsy-Y2YmLu-XS1AxY-WZfGDs-TVHtqf-YjyVHr-X9d8vT-Y4rv6w-WTuK8o-X3M1FG-Y4tptq-XuCsyb" class="markup--anchor markup--figure-anchor" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Boaz Guttman</a></figcaption></figure></div><div class="section-inner sectionLayout--insetColumn"><p name="8396" id="8396" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">By <a href="https://twitter.com/adrien4ej" data-href="https://twitter.com/adrien4ej" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Adrien Salazar</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/algernon_austin" data-href="https://twitter.com/algernon_austin" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Algernon Austin</a></p><p name="c64c" id="c64c" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Climate change means that the extreme weather events we are witnessing, like Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and the heatwave that this week swept California, will be more common and more intense. The level of flooding that Harvey has caused in Houston has traditionally been expected once every 500 years, but in fact “500-year floods” have happened <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/28/16211392/100-500-year-flood-meaning" data-href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/28/16211392/100-500-year-flood-meaning" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">3 times</a> in Houston in the last 3 years.</p><p name="e415" id="e415" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">The <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Washington Post</em> suggested that 2016 be called “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/2016-weather/?tid=graphics-story" data-href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/2016-weather/?tid=graphics-story" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the year of the flood</a>.” Harvey alone has made 2017 the new “year of the flood,” and Hurricane Irma, as of this writing bringing Category 5 winds across the Caribbean, is projected to make landfall in Florida by the end of the week. The <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Post</em> also noted that 2016 was an intense year for <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/2016-weather/?tid=graphics-story" data-href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/2016-weather/?tid=graphics-story" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">droughts and forest fires</a> around the country. The future promises more natural disasters aggravated by climate change as a result of inaction by those in power who deny climate reality.</p><p name="127d" id="127d" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">In June, the <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">New York Times</em> produced an important map showing the predicted economic impact of climate change on counties across the United States. The map shows that counties in the southern states, from North Carolina across to California and southward, would carry the greatest economic costs of climate change. Many of the counties in these states could lose 5 to 15 percent of GDP per year, with the poorest counties suffering some of the largest declines.</p></div><div class="section-inner sectionLayout--outsetColumn"><figure name="322f" id="322f" class="graf graf--figure graf--layoutOutsetCenter graf-after--p"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 1000px; max-height: 624px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 62.4%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="0*w3IVRjmx1y5ZmA-D.png" data-width="1600" data-height="999" data-action="zoom" data-action-value="0*w3IVRjmx1y5ZmA-D.png" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/0*w3IVRjmx1y5ZmA-D.png"></div><figcaption class="imageCaption"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/29/climate/southern-states-worse-climate-effects.html?mcubz=3" data-href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/29/climate/southern-states-worse-climate-effects.html?mcubz=3" class="markup--anchor markup--figure-anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Source</a>: New York Times</figcaption></figure></div><div class="section-inner sectionLayout--insetColumn"><p name="8e3d" id="8e3d" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">While revealing the geographic inequity of climate change impacts in the U.S., one important point that these reports failed to highlight is that climate change will disproportionately harm people of color. People of color are overrepresented in the southern states, in the poorest counties, and among outdoor workers.</p><blockquote name="5711" id="5711" class="graf graf--pullquote graf-after--p">Climate change will disrupt the lives of millions in the South, and will leave communities that have been historically marginalized more vulnerable to disaster.</blockquote><p name="1cf2" id="1cf2" class="graf graf--p graf-after--pullquote">Latinos comprise a large proportion in these communities. Many Latino workers work outdoors in occupations such as landscaping, farming, and construction. The <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Times</em> noted <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/us/politics/climate-change-trump-working-poor-activists.html" data-href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/us/politics/climate-change-trump-working-poor-activists.html" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the toll that heat takes</a> on people who work outdoors in southern states. It reported on a worker who “vomited and convulsed after hours of mowing lawns in stifling heat.” Latinos are already <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/media/2016/161013" data-href="https://www.nrdc.org/media/2016/161013" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">three times as likely</a> as non-Latinos to die on the job from excessive heat. Climate change will put even more Latino workers at risk.</p><p name="ba38" id="ba38" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Hurricane Harvey, like its southern predecessors Rita and Katrina, already demonstrates that climate change will disrupt the lives of millions in the South, and will leave communities that have been historically marginalized <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/houstons-human-catastrophe-started-long-before-the-storm/" data-href="https://www.thenation.com/article/houstons-human-catastrophe-started-long-before-the-storm/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">more vulnerable to disaster</a>. Harvey’s impacts are layered onto years of neglect of infrastructure, mapped onto racial lines, and exacerbated by the <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/how-texas-lawmakers-failed-plan-climate-change-harvey-floods-2583983" data-href="http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/how-texas-lawmakers-failed-plan-climate-change-harvey-floods-2583983" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">failure to plan</a> for climate adaptation.</p><p name="1b49" id="1b49" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p graf--trailing">Addressing climate change will require not only reducing carbon emissions, but also investing in infrastructure, particularly in the communities most vulnerable to its impacts. Resilience to climate change calls for transforming the energy economy as well as building resilient neighborhoods through re-investment in communities of color and poor communities.</p></div></div></section><section name="a455" class="section section--body section--last"><div class="section-divider"><hr class="section-divider"></div><div class="section-content"><div class="section-inner sectionLayout--insetColumn"><p name="eeb6" id="eeb6" class="graf graf--p graf--leading"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">This post initially appeared on Demos’ blog </em></strong><a href="http://www.demos.org/blog/9/1/17/hurricane-harvey-reminds-us-south-will-bear-brunt-climate-change-us" data-href="http://www.demos.org/blog/9/1/17/hurricane-harvey-reminds-us-south-will-bear-brunt-climate-change-us" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Policy Shop</em></strong></a><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em"> — policy as if people mattered.</em></strong></p><p name="e895" id="e895" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em">More from Demos Economist Algernon Austin:</em></p><div name="63dd" id="63dd" class="graf graf--mixtapeEmbed graf-after--p"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/oped-trump-won-t-address-critical-infrastructure-needs-african-americans-n770341" data-href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/oped-trump-won-t-address-critical-infrastructure-needs-african-americans-n770341" class="markup--anchor markup--mixtapeEmbed-anchor" title="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/oped-trump-won-t-address-critical-infrastructure-needs-african-americans-n770341" rel="nofollow"><strong class="markup--strong markup--mixtapeEmbed-strong">Trump administration neglects infrastructure needs of black communities</strong><br><em class="markup--em markup--mixtapeEmbed-em">The American Society of Civil Engineers gives America&#39;s infrastructure a D+ grade. 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