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The natural disaster economist

2023-09-27 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·23m 41s ·by NPR
The natural disaster economist
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About this episode

There seems to be headlines about floods, wildfires, or hurricanes every week. Scientists say this might be the new normal — that climate change is making natural disasters more and more common. Tatyana Deryugina is a leading expert on the economics of natural disasters — how we respond to them, how