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Good point. Areas around major faultlines should be off limits too.
by waterlesscloud 11y ago
Good point. Areas around major faultlines should be off limits too.
- kbenson 11y agoThere are good reasons to build in some of the areas that are prone to disasters. Much of the west coast is fault lines, but there are extremely lucrative ports there as well. I think the real problem is that the people are bad at planning for things that happen on the timescale of many types of disasters, so we need to combat this deficiency. E.g. Requiring insurance for disaster areas over a certain level, pseudo-pooling by level to increase cost for worse areas, etc. The big problem is the existing populace, which may be priced out of their homes. You could probably ameliorate those problems by only enforcing the new requirements on sale/inheritance of existing homes or new buildings. Eventually the market will adjust.