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The Cost of More Frequent Weather-Related Disasters

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Published: July 10, 2022 by VPR Producer

In 2021, climate disasters cost the U.S. more than 145 billion dollars and led to the deaths of 688 people. Each year, these extreme weather events are growing to be more frequent as the climate shifts. We discuss the growing economic toll of these mass destruction events and what can be done to switch course.


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  • Bob Keefe, executive director, Environmental Entrepreneurs, author of Climatenomics: Washington, Wall Street and the Economic Battle to Save Our Planet.

Links for more info:

  • The world will need dozens of breakthrough climate technologies in the next decade | MIT Technology Review
  • bkeefee2 / Twitter
  • 2021’s extreme weather cost 688 lives and $145 billion in the US | NPR
Program #: 22-28segment type: Feature StoriesTopics - Climate Change| Earth and Environmental Science and Climate Change| Economics and Finance| Extreme Weather| Federal Government| Natural Disasters| Weather and Weather ForecastingGuests - Bob KeefeBooks & Publications - ClimatenomicsInstitutions - Environmental EntrepreneursHost - Gary PriceProducers - Amirah Zaveri| Jason Dickey
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