[MCN] Much the same can just as clearly be said about homes at risk from fire

[Lance Olsen]

"A hurricane making the same landfall along the US coastline today -- having the same intensity and magnitude of one a few decades ago -- would probably cause much greater damage to property and life because of the large increase of population concentrations in coastal settlements. .... Part of that damage (or, stated in another way, the increase of risk of damage) can be directly attributed both to government and private decisionmakers who permitted, if not encouraged, an increasing number of people to move into harm's way."

p. 23. Michael Glantz. Currents of Change: Impacts of El Nino and La Nina on Climate and Society. Second edition. Cambridge University Press 2001. 



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