Source: @extremetemps // Data: NASA

Consider the tale of Noah’s Ark. It is one of the rare legends that actually displays proactive action before a disaster. And it’s a lesson about the rest of humanity’s inclination to deny impending alarms. It rings true for our era of greed and complacency ahead of — and amid — climate shocks.

History says change emerges from the depths of catastrophe. The Black Death, leading to improved public health measures and sanitation. World War II devastation, spurring the establishment of the United Nations and international cooperation.

And yet now, the alarms of catastrophe are everywhere: Hawaii was devoured by flames; Canada’s wildfires have already consumed the size of Iceland; Antarctica, failed to form 1,6 million square kilometers of the ice sheet. Morocco, for the first time, surpassed 50ºC with 50.2ºC at Agadir Airport; South America with extremely warm winter anomalies records falling from Guyana to Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.

Source: Zack Labe // Data: NASA

If anything, the “Al-gorian alarmists” underestimated the threat. Our collective nature inclines toward reactivity, not proactivity.

So if we were to start building the Ark for today, what would it look like?

Feeding the Future

1- Blooming Desert Farmlands

A Dutch greenhouse company aims to turn Saudi Arabia’s Neom desert into a “synthetic climate” farmland, like creating an oasis amidst aridness. With an area as large as 15 soccer fields, it’s a food-security response.

The $120 million project uses innovative tech like AI-driven farming and solar cooling, aspiring to yield 300,000 tons of produce in 8–10 years. To put it into perspective, that’s equivalent to feeding nearly 6 million people yearly.

Just as planting a garden in a desert is challenging, this project is like planting a thousand-hectare garden in a tough…