The answer is climate adaptation and mitigation. The issue I see is that we are late to that party and there is not enough Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) staff to solve the deep hole we have dug ourselves into. This is not Criswell’s fault — it is Congress and every state and local jurisdiction, along with business and industry.
We love living in the here and now, but the future has now caught up with us. It is great to say there will be 20 communities helped with making applications for disaster mitigation funding. However, there are 3,000 counties and another 6,000 cities, of which the majority don’t have the expertise to tap into the mitigation funding becoming available.
