This looks to me like yet one more form of climate science denial. Andrew Yang went farther than probably any U.S. president in history at the Democratic debates tonight in telling lowland Americans to move to higher ground (with help from his signature version of universal basic income of $1,000 a month to everybody). While UBI is probably a good idea, the problem with tying it to the climate crisis is that every U.S. city, big or small, is going to be affected by the changes in some seriously negative way, not just those in the path of sea-level rise. The crisis won’t only affect residents of 300 vulnerable coastal cities—MB.
Christopher Flavelle at The New York Times writes—Homes Are Being Built the Fastest in Many Flood-Prone Areas, Study Finds:
In many coastal states, flood-prone areas have seen the highest rates of home construction since 2010, a study found, suggesting that the risks of climate change have yet to fundamentally change people’s behavior.
The study, by Climate Central, a New Jersey research group, looked at the 10-year flood risk zone — the area with a 10 percent chance of flooding in any given year — and estimated the zone’s size in 2050. Then the group counted up homes built there since 2010, using data from Zillow, a real estate company.
For eight states, including Connecticut, Rhode Island, Mississippi and South Carolina, the percentage increase in homes built in the flood zone exceeded the rate of increase in the rest of the state. [...]
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On this date at Daily Kos in 2012—The Chronicles of Mitt: July 31, 2012:
Hello, human diary. It is I again, Mitt Romney, your better.
Today I was in Poland. I complimented them by saying that I wished America could be more like them, except for the unions and big government parts. My staff apparently got into a small donnybrook with the press units, who did not understand that I had taken all three of this tour's planned reporter questions back in London and would therefore not be answering any others.
We chose Poland as our final nation for this tour because it is close to Russia, thus counting for at least double the foreign policy experience that nations at farther distances would provide. It is definitely an unnerving experience, however. All the people in this portion of Europe have strange names, and all the words here are too long. I believe Eastern Europe could increase their economic vitality by at least 20 percent if they had a culture of using shorter words for things.
The trip is mostly done with now. I am looking forward to being back at home, though I have not decided which one I will be visiting first. I have been missing my bus as well, and have asked the staff if there might be a possibility of further bus-related events in the future.
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