A shooting or a disaster grabs our attention for a few days and then we are distracted by the World Cup or other everyday concerns like Black Friday sales.
So it is with disasters. They are happening so frequently and with such regularity that they are just part of the background noise of our lives.
What got me thinking about this was the report on disaster debris in Florida, see this:
“Florida is still struggling to clean up from Hurricane Ian. Why? The deadly storm, which hit nearly two months ago, left behind enough debris to fill the Empire State Building 22 times. Where will it go? Temporary dump sites, then larger landfills. But it will probably take months, cost billions of dollars and could have environmental impacts. The bigger picture: Costly disasters like this one will probably become more common as climate change accelerates.”
