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A lesson from Hurricane Ida that is changing the world

Pieces of the levee lie flattened near a New Orleans East neighborhood, Sept. 20, 2005. The neighborhood was wiped out in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when a barge broke through the levee, sending a 30-foot wave of water into the area.

In the weeks since Hurricane Ida landed at New Orleans, it has illustrated two very different stories. One is the rising violence of the changing climate. The other, which is only now fully emerging, is the human resilience that has already made the world far safer.

New storms are already forming in the Gulf of Mexico, but the aftermath of Hurricane Ida is now entering what we might call the resilience zone. It can be the most testing, and telling, phase.

As part of the Monitor’s Finding Resilience project, here is a tale of two

The effects of human resilienceAiming bigger

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