Koh: If you had said, maybe 15 years ago, that the cheapest source of power on planet Earth was going to be solar, people would look at you like you had three heads. We made it through a financial crisis, and now the investments that were made around that time by the Department of Energy in the energy transition across the private sector have made it so that people think that solar power is going to be the future. So the speed of change can be done with technology and investment over a decade, decade and a half, and dramatically change your mind. McCarty Carino: So we’re getting some new Census Bureau data about the resilience of various communities at the local level to withstand climate change. Koh: I think it’s incredibly important, particularly because the conversation around climate change, like so many other conversations, really is also one that has inherent in it questions about equity. It turns out that the populations that were most severely impacted by COVID-19, in many cases, were disadvantaged populations. They also bear the brunt of environmental risk as we’ve seen, and they’re now bearing the brunt of climate impact on top of it. So that kind of double, triple whammy problem for those populations is a reality that we need to face and we need to address.
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