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One million US homes are built on floodplains. It would cost $200B to relocate the people who live in them. If we do that, we will save $1T. Those homes are doomed. 1/ 
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2022/07/29/man… 2/
pluralistic.net/2022/07/29/man… 2/
When (not if) people leave them (either before or after floods come), they merely be arriving at a conclusion that is inevitable today.
prospect.org/environment/ho… 3/
prospect.org/environment/ho… 3/
This week on my podcast, I read my recent @medium column, "What Is Peak Indifference?" in which I try to unpack my 2016 theory of change about the role that "self-radicalization" plays in addressing thorny problems.
craphound.com/news/2022/03/2… 1/
craphound.com/news/2022/03/2… 1/
Many of our most urgent problems embody a paradox: while these problems are urgent (in the sense that they are matters of life-or-death), they're also part of causal chains that are so long that they're hard to trace and understand. 2/
Think of smoking: the link between a lungful of smoke and a lung-tumor is separated by so much time and space that there is plenty of room for denial to take hold (especially when the denial is amplified and reinforced by Big Tobacco's disinformation campaigns). 3/
