“Ironically, climate change and the flooding
and extreme weather events that it is causing to
increase — make it imperative to think about disability
as a major factor in
our communities.
[With climate
change,] incidents of disability will increase — we will have to think
of people who cannot run from the fire or jump in a
boat,” she said.
Saxton noted that tens of millions of
people — from infants to the elderly and many with
disabilities — depend on electricity to keep vital medicines
refrigerated, oxygen
machines working, dwellings cooled from
100-plus degree heat and other life-saving
apparatus functioning.
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