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I love a good analogy. Because complex topics need simplifying. We might win arguments using 'academic speak', but we’re unlikely to inspire action. And nothing simplifies better than a good analogy. I tend towards car/driving examples because everyone can relate. And while not a car analogy, I was struck at how similarly-well this “ship size" problem, as an external cause of decreasing bridge resilience, works for relating what nearly every community is experiencing as a result of increasing climate risk. And how perfectly it points to the sacrifice that lies ahead for communities and individuals if resilience remains a "valued" objective. The article references "outmoded bridge design" as contributing to Baltimore's catastrophic loss. Which should suggest that, at one time, its design was NOT outmoded. It was once appropriate. It was probably even considered "resilient" on its inauguration day. But things changed. Ships got bigger. Risk changed. The bridge, on the other hand, didn't. Gradually, it became another community feature "built to withstand a risk that's no longer relevant." I imagine how this story about bridges and ships would have been written if the tone so often taken when covering communities and climate change were used. We wouldn't likely be reading about how drastic investment must be demanded...investments we have no choice but to make. Rather, I imagine we'd be served predictions of “which ports are inevitably doomed to failure, given this alarming increase in ship size!" Somehow, we can conceptualize the simplicity of upgrading multi-billion dollar pieces of infrastructure… …yet struggle to accept that strategies exist by which communities can require, inspire, and support residents' accountability for risk - even in the face of gradual yet massive risk profile shifts as is being experienced nearly everywhere. #VBEM #DRR #resilience https://politi.co/3IVj6Dd
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