It Is Not Climate Change. It Is Climate Catastrophe!
The future is not for the faint of heart — or the poor
The term “climate change” is anemic on purpose to allay fears of the general public and diminish its significance.
Who pays for the climate change that has become a climate catastrophe? The poor and middle class bear the brunt of physical damage, financial burden, and social hardship of climate catastrophe. Their houses are burned by forest fires or turned to sodden heaps of kindling by hurricanes and tornadoes. Their cars are flooded or blown away. Water is being cut off in whole communities because of drought.
These catastrophes cause economic mayhem for those that can least deal with it. The retired must go back to work. Savings are wiped out. Many lose everything, even their loved ones. They must grieve in a state of poverty, homelessness, and hopelessness.
A storm like Ian that hit the Florida panhandle devastates people that can’t afford flood insurance. Unless you are a multimillionaire, you can only afford the houses built by real estate developers according to code that is established, in part, by real estate developers to hold down costs.
To truly withstand category 4 hurricanes bordering on category 5 you have to have a house built of steel and concrete…
