In a recently published article referencing the February 2022 flooding on the north coast of Jamaica including Port Maria, Prof. Michael Taylor stated, “the repeated loss of developmental opportunities with each climatic event pushes Jamaica farther away from achieving its 2030 goal of becoming the “place of choice to live, work, raise families and do business”. He further notes “climate will not ‘give us a break’ in the near future, according to the science we do. If it is not intense flooding, it will be long-term drought, or an intense near-pass hurricane, or hot extremes, or beach loss due to sea-level rise, or the acidification of our oceans and loss of coral content. We will always be recovering from one or more of these events at the same time.” He notes the need for  “a multipronged, collaborative and coordinated approach to tackling climate’s challenges [as] though we will never be able to escape climate’s growing fury, we can over time minimise the extent of damage and dislocation and enable a quicker recovery and return to normality after an event.”