Should People Be Prevented From Living In Fire & Flood Prone Areas?
CleanTechnica includes graphics, stats and quotes from Climate Insights 2020: Natural Disasters in a story about building in climate-vulnerable areas.
"A recent survey by Bo MacInnis and Jon Krosnick on behalf of Resources For The Future (RFF) finds there is broad public support for doing something about natural disasters. According to the New York Times, 84% of those surveyed, including 73% of Republicans, support stricter building codes in risky areas and 57% support making it illegal to build in those areas. More than half of respondents favored paying people to move, including three-quarters of Democrats.
Ray Kopp is the vice president for research and policy engagement at RFF. He writes in the latest report, 'We can see from these results that people have an aversion to the government telling them where to live, even when it’s proposed as an incentive rather than a requirement. People have more interest in government intervention to encourage fire prevention and help fight fires, but fewer people are interested in requirements that could place a burden on homeowners or restrict where people can live and work. Yet we still see that close to half of people support measures that would fundamentally change where humans spend time, like incentives to move or restrictions on development in disaster-prone areas. It’s clear that people are worried and deeply affected by these disasters.'"
