You really don't have to go that far back. Considering every decade a beach community gets wiped off the map by a hurricane and is immediately rebuilt, few rare

You really don't have to go that far back. Considering every decade a beach community gets wiped off the map by a hurricane and is immediately rebuilt, few rarely care about the consequences. People are always building in fire/flood/disaster zones. I suppose with insurance and the ability to flee these destructive forces of nature are an acceptable risk. Taking this a step further, climate change could make the whole planet uninhabitable and we still can't get anyone to give a shit.