Mitigating climate change is technologically a simple task. Proven materials and methods are readily available to deliver carbon-neutral buildings. Resilience to climate change, fundamentally durability in response to site, is already a basic part of an architect's commission.The difficulty, therefore, is not technology or training. Really design professionals just need to do their jobs.The problem is that by definition climate change is communal, and a whimsical celebrity house here and an innovative upscale skyscraper there will not get that job done.To have the needed effect, we all have to do it, all of the time. Since meaningful response to climate change requires quick systemic change, design solutions need to effectively deliver sustainability and resilience to a broad range of projects immediately at present market rates. Essentially, architects and engineers are being asked to save the world for free. But how?
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