A California water expert has a close call in the Santa Cruz mountains facing impacts of the continuing barrage of atmospheric rivers hammering the state
So are these unusual weather situations changing anybody’s behaviors or ways of consumption yet? Is it foreseeable that people will draussen change their style of living?
I hope that people who've moved into the many "expanding bull's eyes" where rare but inevitable climate hazards can strike are becoming more aware - along with insurers, builders, lenders. There are signs of change, like some real estate sites listing flood history for properties. But there's also disaster amnesia (gaps between worst-case events) and simply the lure of places that are "impossible and inevitable" - historian Peirce Lewis's description of New Orleans.
So are these unusual weather situations changing anybody’s behaviors or ways of consumption yet? Is it foreseeable that people will draussen change their style of living?
I hope that people who've moved into the many "expanding bull's eyes" where rare but inevitable climate hazards can strike are becoming more aware - along with insurers, builders, lenders. There are signs of change, like some real estate sites listing flood history for properties. But there's also disaster amnesia (gaps between worst-case events) and simply the lure of places that are "impossible and inevitable" - historian Peirce Lewis's description of New Orleans.
Frog soup is on the menu
Taking immediate gratification over long term interest.
Will our children forgive us?