Eugene linden is a journalist and author of the new book, fire and flood. He says business as usual makes us blind to long term threats like climate change. The insurance industry recognizes the threat at the reinsurance level but keeps writing policies even for people moving into harm's way. O'me reporting about areas where people are very vulnerable at tends to be off and lower income areas that are really susceptible to flooding.
Author Eugene Linden discusses his book Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present.
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