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Jan 11, 2023Liked by Andy @Revkin

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?

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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.

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Frog soup is on the menu

Taking immediate gratification over long term interest.

Will our children forgive us?

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