Hm, I'm accessing Lemmy via my browser but the post links directly to https://www.reliance.school/blog/7-keys-to-climate-resilienceso I'm not sure what's happening there.

Disaster capitalism is absolutely a thing, but there is a limit to how many times an area can be rebuilt before it's written off as a loss. Large companies can float losses longer than individual homeowners, but I believe we'll also see an abandonment of the most climate-vulnerable areas over the coming decades.

I wrote it, sorry you're annoyed 😅 I keep my focus on America as climate resilience is a huge subject, and I don't have the bandwidth to keep tabs on multiple countries. There's also pretty good data availability here, although I expect that'll take a hit during this administration. There are some commercial and open-source platforms which are starting to publish data for Canada & Europe, I just haven't come across insurance-specific info in my trawls.

Yes! With the exception of Arkansas and Oklahoma, which may be considered part of that region, but are facing several compounding risks. The biggest threats facing the Midwest are wind, hail, and storms, but I'll take that over wildfires, hurricanes, floods, or lethal wet bulb events.

Here are some links/resource for homebuying in regards to climate risk:

• American Resiliency | YouTube channel covering climate migration and adaptation.
• The Reliance School | Hey that's me! Collection of climate risk maps, plus articles on finding a home.
• Climate Change and Your Home | Substack on climate-resilient real estate.
• First Street | Address lookup tool with risk ratings for floods, fires, heat, hurricanes, and air pollution.
• ClimateCheck | Address lookup tool, similar to First Street, also includes storm & drought ratings.
• How to Shop for a Home That Won’t Be Upended by Climate Change | NYT article with a good checklist.
• America’s Most Sustainable Cities and Regions | Book projecting climate and economic trends.
• ND-Gain Urban Adaptation Assessment | List of cities ranked by climate resilience.
• What will climate feel like in 60 years? | Map of climate analogs for major cities.

It was a no-brainer until fossil fuels! (Although traditionally settlements would have a village surrounded by farmland, not the inverse.)

The ethics and impact of migration is a real concern. If we just take overextraction and overconsumption and move it somewhere else, we're not solving anything. (For example, if we take a region that has a lot of freshwater/biodiversity/arable land and just pave it over.)

I want to start having more discussions about this as migration goes mainstream but there's no feasible way to legislate or enforce it which really worries me.

If you look at what Republican leadership is doing (not saying), they absolutely believe climate change is a threat. They're reacting to it with dystopian measures, but it's clear they're just playing dumb.