“Climate change is a slow-moving crisis that is going to last a very, very long time, and it’s going to require some fundamental changes,” said Becker. The pandemic is “a temporary problem,” while climate change is “long-term dire,” said Austin Becker, a maritime infrastructure resilience scholar at the University of Rhode Island. But the less publicized threat to supply chains from climate change poses a far more serious threat and is already being felt, scholars and experts say. The Covid pandemic has rightly received most of the blame for global supply chain upheavals in the last two years.
