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I do think people fixate on "Climate Change is going to make weather patterns way worse" while losing a bit of sight on "Our infrastructure has been collapsing for the last 50 years and neither states nor businesses want to spend money to shore it up".
These hurricanes are the big-ass straw that's breaking the ancient and rickety-knee'd camel's back. Even if we magically solved rising temperatures tomorrow, we'd still be dealing with the legacy of higher global temperatures for another century. And we'd still have infrastructure that's continuing to pass its expiration date under the most benign weather conditions.
But because of the way we do accounting and measure economic growth in this country, these storms only ever seem to be counted as "future possible risks to hedge against" rather than "guaranteed costs to invest in anticipation of".