Improving adaptive capacity and resilience would include public investments in sturdier housing, better urban drainage and sewage systems to avoid flooding and disease, improving clean water supplies, improving irrigation for climate-resilient agriculture, providing access to electricity and natural gas for cooking and heating homes to substitute away from using fuelwood and charcoal, and so on.
Climate activists want the bark huts fitted with induction coolers and electric heat pumps. The world and sub-Saharan Africans would be better off with simple solutions like gas stoves. Saying this is not “climate denialism”. Many African activists say it.
