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Written by anlomedad on 2025-01-20 at 06:02

"Rarely have so many cities ruined by natural disasters attempted to rebuild around the same time. Hurricane reconstruction efforts are under way in North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. Soon, Los Angeles County will be starting to rebuild. "

"As more projects get under way, escalating demand for home-building resources could course through the economy, tightening supply chains and driving up costs."

"Builders will compete for engineering resources, architectural resources and debris removal"

If POTUS " follows through on his vow to impose stiff tariffs and deport undocumented workers, rebuilding could become even more fraught. Undocumented workers comprise an estimated 13% of the construction industry, while many builders rely on imported steel, lumber and other materials that could soon be more expensive. "

Again no mention of the scientific figure for sustainable living space per person: 35 square metres.

And no mention of switching to communal appliances as opposed to each family re-buying their own washing machines or tools.

They all think that single family homes and mansions are a matter of course, not a problem wrt natural resources, minerals, biodiversity, emissions, car-dependency and so on.

Also, one might recall how the economists' model #DICE has its default setting to a couple of years in which damages from weather extremes are assumed to be fully replaced.

And if I'm not mistaken, this damage function has no setting for increasing recovery time over the decades or increasing with rising temperature. They set it once, and their model calculates with this figure all the way through to 2100.

But here we are, at merely 1.5C, and the US faces shortages for rebuilding after multiple disasters within 9 months struck the South. Shortages even before the President of the United Sadists is in Office and enacts his grand scheme to end civilisation.

Good for GDP, is it?

[#]LAfires #EconObscene

https://www.wsj.com/business/the-battle-for-recovery-supplies-is-on-in-a-disaster-strewn-america-46d191bf

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Written by anlomedad on 2025-01-20 at 07:11

Actual rebuilding after LAfires will not start immediately, even tho the mayor has expedited all on-site-rebuilding permits. Insurance approvals need to come thru first. And the above described shortages due to the hurricane clusterfuck in North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.

Which is a good thing. Because a heavy rain, as is very common in winter in Southern California, on the burnt hillsides is going to cause mudslides.

This article describes what happened near Santa Barbara in 2017/2018, after a fire had ravaged 10x as much area than the #LAfires , and even before it was put out, a mere 12.7mm of rain (0.5 inch) – but within 15 minutes and on a burned hillside – buried the village Montecito under metres of mud and debris.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/los-angeles-fires-mudslide-disaster-threat/681350/?gift=test9u4iwdlgaYtKcTnTrbJWDVPBOtTSBIahe_z1GRA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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