Deborah R. Coen is Professor of History and History of Science & Medicine at Yale University. She is the author, most recently, of Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale (University of Chicago Press, 2018), and The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter (University of Chicago Press, 2013). Her writing has also appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Washington Post, and Science. Her next book uses history to rethink the science of “adapting” to climate change.