I do think that collectively we are coming to the point where we need some long term thinking at very high level to deal with the problems we will be facing in the coming centuries. For the centrally planned economies like China, I believe they will cope easier than the Capitalist West, that seems to begrudge any money spent or invested by the government for those climate change rainy days.
It doesn’t take a climate change scientist to realise that these type of events are only the start of the challenges we will be facing.