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THE FACT IS, › Right: The bed of
the Jacarei River
THE CLIMATE during a drought
affecting São
DOES CHANGE; Paulo State, Brazil,
in late 2014. São
Paulo’s Cantareira
IT HAS DONE SO reservoir system
supplies water
BEFORE AND people in the
to 9 million
THROUGHOUT São Paulo region.
Some reservoirs
were down to 3
HUMAN HISTORY. capacity. But by
or 5 percent of
June 14, 2017,
capacity was up to
97.27 percent.
Because climate change is relatively
slow and gradual, shelter is actually a
small part of adequate preparation,
› Below: Desperate
because most building materials are families clutch
designed to accommodate heating/ their belongings
after being
cooling needs and can be supplemented uprooted by
as needed over time. Rather, the bigger river erosion in
Bangladesh after
issue is one of ensuring you have enough the Padma River PHOTO: NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
closed in on their
food and, more importantly, water. Where homes. Erosion
there is the latter, there is life. is endemic in
Bangladesh, with
“We humans are infinitely adaptable millions affected
to environmental change, to climatic as farmland, crops
and villages are
events short- and long-term,” says destroyed.

PHOTO: ZAKIR HOSSAIN CHOWDHURY/BARCRO VIA GETTY IMAGES

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