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More droughts and heat waves, stronger and more intense storms, longer wildfire seasons, all show that the earth's climate is changing. Regardless of anyone's beliefs in climate change, the civil engineering profession has the responsibility for creating safe infrastructure for the country and the world. With this book, Wallace intends to promote a major overhaul of the standards and practices of civil engineering, so that engineers, now and in the future, are prepared to tackle the challenges and opportunities of the end of stationarity with our climate. This well-written and engaging book does an excellent job of presenting the case of why climate change is a direct threat to the engineering profession, its effects on the country's infrastructure, how unsustainable development is a road to nowhere, how to deal with deep uncertainty in infrastructure, and how two different decision-making methodologies can be used to find our way forward. This book is a clarion call to the civil engineering profession to get their act together and make a difference in the world one more time. This is one book that needs to be read by all engineers regardless of their field of expertise.Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.