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March 1, 2026 · 4 min read
Why Can’t We Better Prepare for Extreme Weather? | Catherine Nakalembe | TED
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Key Takeaways
- 1We live in an age of unprecedented technological capability.
- 2This realization hit me painfully in 2015 when I spent August in Karamoja, documenting yet another failed cropping season that I had predicted mont...
- 3But what haunted me then, and remains true today, is this: if we could mobilize emergency response within 24 hours, why couldn't we prevent this pr...
- 4Let me share the story of Mary, a farmer in Iringa, Tanzania, whose experience represents millions of smallholder farmers worldwide.
- 5Now imagine a different scenario: Mary receives seasonal information in January that includes not just drought predictions, but information about w...
Overview
We live in an age of unprecedented technological capability. With over 8,000 satellites, AI models, and computational power that can predict droughts and floods weeks or even months in advance, we should theoretically be able to prevent climate-related disasters. Yet millions of people continue to face food insecurity, and climate disasters have more than doubled since the 1980s. The problem isn't our ability to predict—it's our ability to translate those predictions into meaningful action.
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