New Climate Reality

A shift from 'how do we avoid this?' to 'how do we navigate through this?' The ship-in-storm metaphor: the mainstream narrative is still 'change course to sail around the storm' but reality demands storm navigation. Shifts the emotional and strategic register from prevention to navigation while maintaining mitigation ambition. Validates what frontline National Societies already know: they are not preparing for a future crisis but managing a present one.

Vague and loose enought to be used by different people in different ways. Usually means the recognition that we are living in an already-changed world. The risk is that it can normalise inaction ('this is just reality now') rather than sharpen urgency.

We are already in the storm, not heading toward it.