This Is Why Severe Weather And Economic Instability Go Hand in Hand.

This is also why Capitalism is not equipped to deal with a new reality of severe weather; because it's not just unstable markets (as in skill prices made even more problematic, among other commodities as depicted in the linked article below) that matter, but that someone has to pay someone else to do anything about either dealing with it beforehand, or after; and no one, it seems, in Capitalism, wants to pay for anything that might benefit another, at least in the kinds of sums we're talking about here.

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