It would make sense to have a singular bureau that coordinates and consolidates the different agency aid available. I've literally worked for this sort of interagency bureau in state government...
It would make sense to have a singular bureau that coordinates and consolidates the different agency aid available. I've literally worked for this sort of interagency bureau in state government (Medicaid waivers in this case) so I know they can exist.
It's probably the fastest way to get those communities off the coastlines and out of the immediate cycle of climate disaster and recovery..we know people can't or won't move otherwise and if people stay after all the help they've at least made their choices
See, here's the thing: I don't, and neither does the US government. This is one of those vanishingly few points on which we both agree. Besides which, we aren't talking about Scooter and Buffy's...
If you believe in the free market...
See, here's the thing: I don't, and neither does the US government. This is one of those vanishingly few points on which we both agree.
Besides which, we aren't talking about Scooter and Buffy's third house on the Keys so much as impoverished communities who've been in a spot for a century plus, who stuck around when all the jobs left, and who don't necessarily have the house in West Egg to fall back on when the single-wide washes into the Bering Sea. Moving their communities seems as good a use of tax dollars as I've seen lately, even if some well-heeled types might attempt to grab some for themselves.
I'd be comfortable with cut-off dates (always set after the announcement of said date) for certain high-risk areas where assistance won't be provided for people living in homes built after that...
I'd be comfortable with cut-off dates (always set after the announcement of said date) for certain high-risk areas where assistance won't be provided for people living in homes built after that date. The areas would probably keep expanding, but as long as the "if you build here, it's at your own risk" announcements keep going out ahead of foundations being poured, it seems like relatively fair play to me.
I don't believe in the free market, but as far as the system we live in goes the solution that I've described above seems the best I can think of.
I have a very shallow understanding of the role of the various US federal agencies but given the root cause of the issue being climate change induced meteorological disasters, shouldn't this be...
With the Resettlement Administration long gone, no federal agency bears responsibility for helping the most threatened and remote communities relocate if they wish to do so.
I have a very shallow understanding of the role of the various US federal agencies but given the root cause of the issue being climate change induced meteorological disasters, shouldn't this be straightforwardly under FEMA's purview?
FEMA is for managing responses to emergencies. They attempt to provide shelter, food, and water to places already struck by disaster. Not only do they not have the resources to move threatened...
FEMA is for managing responses to emergencies. They attempt to provide shelter, food, and water to places already struck by disaster. Not only do they not have the resources to move threatened communities, it's completely outside their skill set and remit.
The hope here is that by taking proactive action things are never allowed to get to the emergency stage. There's no Federal Emergency Avoidance Agency, which is more or less what the author is proposing.
My strong suspicion is that our incoming Prosperity Gospel overlords will fall back on their favorite method for picking up downtrodden communities, which is to scold them for having the enormous poor taste to have chosen to be downtrodden, and provide them with vague instructions involving bootstraps and impossible physics.
It would make sense to have a singular bureau that coordinates and consolidates the different agency aid available. I've literally worked for this sort of interagency bureau in state government (Medicaid waivers in this case) so I know they can exist.
It's probably the fastest way to get those communities off the coastlines and out of the immediate cycle of climate disaster and recovery..we know people can't or won't move otherwise and if people stay after all the help they've at least made their choices
See, here's the thing: I don't, and neither does the US government. This is one of those vanishingly few points on which we both agree.
Besides which, we aren't talking about Scooter and Buffy's third house on the Keys so much as impoverished communities who've been in a spot for a century plus, who stuck around when all the jobs left, and who don't necessarily have the house in West Egg to fall back on when the single-wide washes into the Bering Sea. Moving their communities seems as good a use of tax dollars as I've seen lately, even if some well-heeled types might attempt to grab some for themselves.
I'd be comfortable with cut-off dates (always set after the announcement of said date) for certain high-risk areas where assistance won't be provided for people living in homes built after that date. The areas would probably keep expanding, but as long as the "if you build here, it's at your own risk" announcements keep going out ahead of foundations being poured, it seems like relatively fair play to me.
I don't believe in the free market, but as far as the system we live in goes the solution that I've described above seems the best I can think of.
I have a very shallow understanding of the role of the various US federal agencies but given the root cause of the issue being climate change induced meteorological disasters, shouldn't this be straightforwardly under FEMA's purview?
FEMA is for managing responses to emergencies. They attempt to provide shelter, food, and water to places already struck by disaster. Not only do they not have the resources to move threatened communities, it's completely outside their skill set and remit.
The hope here is that by taking proactive action things are never allowed to get to the emergency stage. There's no Federal Emergency Avoidance Agency, which is more or less what the author is proposing.
My strong suspicion is that our incoming Prosperity Gospel overlords will fall back on their favorite method for picking up downtrodden communities, which is to scold them for having the enormous poor taste to have chosen to be downtrodden, and provide them with vague instructions involving bootstraps and impossible physics.
Yes.