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Re:Hurricane Ian damages in Southeast estimated at $100B to ... by hackerlight on Friday September 30, 2022 @01:29PM (#33037860)
If the irresponsible people who insist on living in hurricane prone areas pay for their own repairs, then I have no problem with them living there. If they ask for me to pay for it, then that gives me moral buy in into whether they should be allowed to live there.
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Re:Hurricane Ian damages in Southeast estimated at $100B to ... by smabie on Friday September 30, 2022 @01:54PM (#33038246)
I mean is it irresponsible to live in a hurricane prone area? For example I live in Puerto Rico. Do you want everyone to just leave?
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Re:Hurricane Ian damages in Southeast estimated at $100B to ... by folkhack on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:24PM (#33038643)
> I mean is it irresponsible to live in a hurricane prone area?

Climate change really doesn't have an opinion on this. Here's a paper from the EPA:

"What Climate Change Means for Puerto Rico"

https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/sites/production/files...

As someone who believes climate change is fact, if I had the economic mobility to move my life away from such an area I would. Sorry if this seems harsh, but people much smarter than me agree that these areas are going to be prone to worse and worse conditions in the coming decades.

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Re:Hurricane Ian damages in Southeast estimated at $100B to ... by hackerlight on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:28PM (#33038695)
I want you or the polluters who are causing climate change to pay the cost. Leave me out of it.
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Re:Hurricane Ian damages in Southeast estimated at $100B to ... by sokoloff on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:29PM (#33038711)
You should decide to stay or leave based on whatever mix of factors are important to you.

That’s your decision, which is distinct from whether other Americans should subsidize the economic consequence of your decision.

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