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The East Coast expects hurricanes, not the pollution nightmare triggered by smoke that drifted in from blazes hundreds of miles away.

Human activity — namely greenhouse gas emissions from using fossil fuels — is now the primary driver of more extreme weather across the world, according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

“Communities that are feeling the impact disproportionately are the lower-income populations, are the ones who are systematically deprioritized and traditionally underserved,” Kruczkiewicz says.

This phenomenon is often referred to as a “compound event” in climate science, a pileup of more than one kind of threat that often takes a greater toll than the sum of its parts.

“The situation that we’re living in right now in the country emphasizes the need to be proactive at the administrative county, state, and federal level,” Pita says.

He thinks it’s a good moment to reassess emergency plans and even the data policymakers use to make probability assessments about risk.

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