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Fail to Prepare, then Prepare to Fail
as before” rather than focusing on how robustly they can “withstand” the
inevitable hazards that loom on the horizon. Practitioners’ work should
emphasize local education, decentralized planning empowerment, and postimpact
reconstruction. The current reliance on centralized power structures
for dealing with the impacts of climate change in the Caribbean fosters a
dangerous sense of absolved responsibility and highlights why the lessons
from the past, contained in this chapter, are important for the challenges of
the future.
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