If the climate watchers are even close to right, all coastal areas on the planet will be at risk in the next decades. The population of these areas add up to roughly 40% of the world's population, so we're not talking about a small scale issue.
How many of these regions are designing preventing and resiliency into their instituting building policies and practices? More importantly, what if the global design community led the conversation now where we decide together on the "definitive early warning indicators" warranting new approaches? Seriously. Should we postpone premature action and investments until a certain number of structures, lives, or regions are destroyed by a rise in earthquakes and rising tide patterns? And if so, what is the "right number" that makes the whole matter actionable? It may not be too late, or too early, to be this preemptive, and yes, it will take the design community to take leadership on it, fortunately or not.
