Washington Post Magazine: "How Extreme Weather Has Created a Disaster for School Infrastructure"
By Andrea Stanley
The expense is worth it, experts say. A 2020 National Institute of Building Sciences report found that for every dollar invested in climate mitigation strategies when building, $13 would be saved.
“The costs will only go up the longer we wait,” says Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School. “And there are real costs, traumatic costs, in putting this off. The people who are most vulnerable are the kids.”
Quoted in: "How Extreme Weather Has Created a Disaster for School Infrastructure" by Andrea Stanley, Washington Post Magazine, 13 April 2022.
