It's clear to me that these examples of trade offs assume a capitalist society without community supports. We can't push buttons to stop natural disasters but

It's clear to me that these examples of trade offs assume a capitalist society without community supports. We can't push buttons to stop natural disasters but we can push buttons to limit the deaths due to wildfire, heat, floods, freezing, electricity and natural gas outages. But doing so requires governments and communities to be proactive and to pre-build resiliency into the communities.