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Why Disasters Are Getting Worse

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Thu Sep 4, 2008 2:18 PM EDT
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It is tempting to look at the line-up of storms in the Atlantic (Hanna, Ike, Josephine) and, in the name of everything green, blame climate change for this state of affairs. But there is another inconvenient truth out there: We are getting more vulnerable to weather mostly because of where we live, not just how we live.

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