The governments and massive corporations of every nation everywhere should've done "x or y" to prevent this. We've had literal decades of warning that these sorta disasters were gonna become more commonplace if we didn't change our ways re; the environment. Now it's time for those who've profited massively from the "rape" of our planet to pay up to cover the costs of adaptation and recovery when things like this happen, seeing as how they caused (and are still causing) it.