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orangepanda | 1 year ago

Is it truly a problem if families move away from areas of high-risk natural disasters?

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anonzzzies|1 year ago

The number of those areas will grow though, so there will be less places to move to.

tossandthrow|1 year ago

The American populous has decided that this is not the case - drill, baby drill.

In the current landscape I think very few people on a global scale has any sympathy with Americans being affected by the changing climate.

vasco|1 year ago

We could put all of humanity in the space of Texas at the density of Manhattan, so I don't think we lack space.

entropi|1 year ago

I would argue it is a problem that can't be solved by means of insurance.

IsTom|1 year ago

Moving money from one pile to the other won't fix climate crisis

thih9|1 year ago

Depends. From a global point of view this might be a net positive. For a family that has to move it's a life altering problem, sometimes impossible to address because of financial, emotional, or other toll.

ben_w|1 year ago

Given all the political noise about "immigrants", "refugees", and "asylum seekers" over the years*, my irony sense is tingling.

(I don't know your personal political opinions here, this irony is blurred over the entire political landscape).

* not just the current noise from Trump, the 20 years in the UK before I moved to Germany

pjc50|1 year ago

I'm sure the US won't introduce inter-state hukou this term. Yet.

(the Chinese system of internal migration control that prevented everyone from migrating to the cities immediately)