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Is it truly a problem if families move away from areas of high-risk natural disasters?
by orangepanda 2y ago
Is it truly a problem if families move away from areas of high-risk natural disasters?
- anonzzzies 2y agoThe number of those areas will grow though, so there will be less places to move to.
- entropi 2y agoI would argue it is a problem that can't be solved by means of insurance.
- anonzzzies 2y agoMe too; just responding to that people can move.
- vasco 2y agoWe could put all of humanity in the space of Texas at the density of Manhattan, so I don't think we lack space.
- danaris 2y agoBut we would not then be able to safely handle sanitation, transportation, air pollution, etc. Nor would we be able to handle the logistic required to feed everyone in such a scenario. "Hypothetically, if we were to jam every human on earth into a space the size of Texas; it would just have the same pop. density as Manhattan" is not remotely the same as "in practice, all of humanity could comfortably live in a space the size of Texas with the density of Manhattan."
- tossandthrow 2y agoThe 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.
- IsTom 2y agoMoving money from one pile to the other won't fix climate crisis
- thih9 2y agoDepends. 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 2y agoGiven 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