CLIMATE DISASTERS: THE NEW NORMAL FOR IT AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY Part 1: Climate Chaos
Just in case someone didn’t get the memo, the Planet Earth is in big trouble. “The dangers of climate change are no longer hypothetical”, the distinguished, Nobel Prize winning scholar Paul Krugman wrote in the NY Times. “The extreme weather events we’ve recently seen around the globe – severe droughts and forest fires in the American West, intensified hurricanes, catastrophic flooding in Europe, heat waves pushing temperatures in the Middle East above 120 degrees (F) – are exactly the kinds of things scientists warned us to expect as the planet warms. “ As fate would have it, the acceleration of global warming and climate disasters came in 2020-2021, a period in which the deadly Covid-19 pandemic killed more than 4.5 million people worldwide, disrupting economic and social life in most countries. According to the WHO, Covid-19 is the most dangerous pandemic of the century (since the Spanish flu of 1918) and the biggest challenge that WHO has ever had to face. For most IT and Business