Governments spend billions fighting fires, rebuilding communities, compensating disaster victims and treating the growing health burden from climate change. Then those same governments spend billions more expanding the industry making those disasters steadily worse.
Governments spend billions fighting fires, rebuilding communities, compensating disaster victims and treating the growing health burden from climate change. Then those same governments spend billions more expanding the industry making those disasters steadily worse.
- Published
- Jul 13, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 13, 2026
- Source
- Canada’s National Observer
- Category
- Environment
- Read time
- 1 min
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