U.S. Gulf States Risk ‘Knock-Out Blow’ from Successive Disasters

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July 18, 2024, 3:15 PM

• •A new report finds that a cycle of “perpetual disaster recovery” threatens to drag down states along the Gulf of Mexico as climate change adds to the danger of overlapping extreme weather events.
• •The steady stream of disasters landed especially hard on communities who — after generations of disinvestment amid systemic racism — lacked the resources to absorb the damage or recover quickly.
• •The study notes that improvement is possible: When a community becomes more resilient, recovery is quicker and less taxing — which reduces the odds of disasters compounding on top of each other.

A cycle of perpetual disaster recovery threatens to drag down states along the Gulf of Mexico as climate change adds to the danger of overlapping extreme weather events, a new report finds.

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