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China is adapting for climate change. Why aren’t we?

By Conn Carroll
Published June 14, 2023 8:10pm ET
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China is adapting for climate change. Why aren’t we?
In this Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014 photo, a farmer walks by a river in Pingdingshan in central China's Henan province. After a season of record-breaking drought across China, groundwater levels have hit historic lows this year in northeast and central parts of China where hundreds of millions of people live. Reservoirs grew so dry in agricultural Henan province that the city of Pingdingshan closed car washes and bathhouses and extracted water from puddles. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT | AP

China suffered through its worst heat wave in over six decades last summer, causing widespread drought and loss of food production.

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