State and Federal incentives to settle in dangerous places have allowed people in the United States to live dangerously with taxpayer money ...
... giving them cheap flood insurance if they reside in a flood zone, for instance, or offering subsidized or regulated home insurance policies even when they live in a wildfire area or near an eroding beach. Ending such practices could allow homeowners to evaluate climate risks more clearly, potentially hastening moves to safer places.
But flooding, heat waves and fires may lead to dramatic impacts in all Americans' lives. "It's going to hit every single person," one scientist tells the author. "No one escapes."
Jon Gertner, America is on Fire, Says One Climate Writer. Should You Flee?, NEW YORK TIMES online March 22, 2024 (reviewing Abrahm Lustgarten, On The Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America (2024).
Another person, the Sustainability Director for the City of Ann Arbor in Michigan, answered the author's question of whether her region feared climate change most, or people coming in: "The people coming in, without a doubt."
There is so much to fear in life and in the future, but let's do much, much better than being most afraid of each other.
The effects of claims from recent Catastrophes in various places across the world are the subject of § 2:13 by Dennis J. Wall in his co-authored book, CATASTROPHE CLAIMS / INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR NATURAL AND MAN-MADE DISASTERS (Thomson Reuters Nov. 2023).
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