Mitigate the risks, which will reduce disaster costs.
Pew responded to a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) request for input with this: "Pew Recommends That FEMA Reconsider Proposed Federal Disaster Criteria."
The real needed action is to promote more efforts toward disaster mitigation. Doing that will reduce disaster costs.
The link above was shared by Claire Rubin.
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