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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social
Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of Inequality Media. Substack: robertreich.substack.com | Mastodon: masto.ai/@rbreich | LinkTree: linktr.ee/rbreich
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Since 1980, there have been 395 weather disasters in the US, with total damages over $1 billion. These disasters have cost $2.77 trillion in total and killed 16,500 people. Don't tell me we "can't afford" to address the climate crisis. The truth is we can’t afford not to.
How much has the US government spent on responding to them ? Asking in order to compare with virtually complete lack of grant response to similar disasters in global South ?
It is not trillion?
Do you have the number year by year? It would be interesting to see the increasing
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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social
Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of Inequality Media. Substack: robertreich.substack.com | Mastodon: masto.ai/@rbreich | LinkTree: linktr.ee/rbreich
33.5k followers79 following1.4k posts