GUANGZHOU, China — The rains brought torrents, pouring into basements and malls, the water swiftly rising a foot and a half. Here, as elsewhere, breakneck development comes up against the growing threat of climate change. And climate change not only poses a menace to those who live and work here, or to the massive concentration of wealth and investment. As always, climate change works like an opportunistic pathogen, worsening existing woes, not acting alone. “There is no obvious, short-term solution to climate change problems, no clear strategy everybody agrees is what needs to happen to offset climate change.

Source: New York Times April 07, 2017 04:07 UTC