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> Weather disasters are getting more severe. It is objectively, quantitatively true that weather disasters are getting more frequent and more severe. There is
by TrainedMonkey 7y ago
> Weather disasters are getting more severe. It is objectively, quantitatively true that weather disasters are getting more frequent and more severe.
There is also more infrastructure for weather disasters to destroy. A perhaps more interesting metric would be an average extreme weather impact per person.
- pixl97 7y agoOne huge problem with infrastructure is people are building it where it shouldn't be without climate change. We just love building in flood zones in the US. We love making more and bigger food zones with suburban expansion. Then as the climate gets worse the problems get worse at a much faster rate than one would expect.
- glogla 7y agoHumans need water, and civilisation needs a lot of it. 90 % of cities are built in flood plain because until relatively recently (~200 years or something?) it was impossible to have a city outside of flood plain. Now, we don't need to do it that way, but it still makes things more expensive.