Climate change preparations: Get real, or prepare for devastation

Last week’s recommendation that South Africa should host Rugby World Cup 2023 was reached, in part, because our infrastructure was deemed inadequate.

We have not built a framework that meets the needs of today’s cyber-dependent, climate-change threatened world.

There are no indications that this asleep-at-the-wheel failing might be resolved anytime soon — certainly not in time to avert the well-flagged ravages of climate change, especially coastal flooding.