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Read the expert then answer the two questions below "Let’s Prepare for our New Climate" In 2005, the world watched as New Orleans and the Gulf Coast were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. One thousand, eight hundred and thirty-six people died. Nearly 300,000 homes were lost. Other parts of the world have been hit by storms in even more devastating ways. In 2008, Cyclone Nargis and its aftermath killed 138,000 in Myanmar. Climate change is affecting our homes, our communities, our way of life. Farmers are facing challenges of drought from Asia to Africa, from Australia to Oklahoma, while heat waves linked with climate change have killed tens of thousands of people in Western Europe in 2003, and again in Russia in 2010. In Ethiopia, 70%... of the population depends on rainfall for its livelihood. Sea level rise threatens coastal ecosystems, agriculture, even major cities. This is what one to two meters of sea level looks like in Mekong Delta. That’s where half of Vietnam’s rice is grown. In the U. K., the Thames Barrier protects London from storm surge. The Asian Cities Climate [Change] Resilience Network is restoring vital ecosystems like forest mangroves. These are not only important ecosystems in their own right, but they also serve as a buffer to protect inland communities. Adaptations are too important to be left to the experts. Why? Well, there are no experts. We are entering uncharted territory, and yet our expertise and our systems are based on the past. “Stationary” is the notion that we can anticipate the future based on the past, and plan accordingly, and this principle governs much of our engineering, our design of critical infrastructure, city water systems, building codes, even water rights and other legal precedents. But we can simply no longer rely on established norms.

TED Talk, Vick Arroyo (2012)

What does the author express using the droughts in Ethiopia, Australia and the United States as examples?

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farmers depend on droughts for their livelihoods

droughts cause sea levels to rise in the Mekong Delta

droughts damage ecosystems, agriculture and economies

New Orleans and the Gulf Coast benefited from the drought caused by Hurricane Katrina
The patterns of heat waves, droughts, hurricanes discussed in the reading indicate changes in which of the following?

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climate

weather

diffusion

demography

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