Severe Weather Delivers a Harsh Lesson on Urgency of Going Green

A delivery worker makes their way in the rainfall from Hurricane Ida in the Bronx borough of New York City.

Photographer: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images North America

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Hello, Hyperdrivers, I’m Dimitra Kessenides, an editor covering the future of transportation at Bloomberg. As I write this, Hurricane Ida has hit the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state area, bringing flash floods, tornadoes and relentless thunderstorms.