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If you have or are planning to have a family, you should likely be thinking about just this already on a personal and family level. Do what you can to reduce yo
by fencepost 5y ago
If you have or are planning to have a family, you should likely be thinking about just this already on a personal and family level. Do what you can to reduce your footprint, but also do your long-term planning based on expectations of climate change.
Among other things, don't buy property within anything considered 100-year or possibly even 500-year flood zones - climate change may mean that 100-year zones start getting flooded every 10 years or less, and that's not only going to impact you directly but the economics of recovery because you and all your never-expected-to-flood neighbors will be trying to recover.
Also consider how the climate is expected to change over the next 50 years where you're considering settling - and what impact it'll have if it changes faster than that.
- pyuser583 5y agoMeh. I mean I have my family. We’ve bought property. I think the important thing is how careful the local government is about resiliency.
- fencepost 5y agoLikely - you can probably get a decent idea of how vulnerable to climate change or other disasters just by looking at insurance costs both for homeowners and possibly for mortgages. Higher risk areas should already be showing signs of increased cost, because risk doesn't change overnight. A hundred year flood isn't one that happens every hundred years - it's one that should have a 1% chance of happening in any given year. The biggest issue with that is whether the flood maps (https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps) used for pricing are based only on historical data or if they account for climate change.
- pyuser583 5y agoI just got done buying a house. Waterfront (vulnerability to flooding) real estate is worth a lot. Everyone wants to live by by the water. We had a once in a 1000 year flood two years ago. It changed nothing.