Corporate America ’ s Crimes Against Humanity Can ’ t Go Unpunished By Thom Hartmann
Recently , 100 mph winds swept grass-fires through Colorado , leaving thousands homeless . It was 116 degrees here in Portland last summer , as wildfires and drought ravage the West . The Gulf Coast , South and Eastern Seaboard are now annually torn apart by superstorms , while the Midwest faces mile-wide tornadoes never before seen with this ferocity and frequency . Climate change has gone from the theoretical to slapping us in the face . From drought and fires that killed hundreds in California , to massive tornadoes ripping apart Kentucky , to sea-level rise and flooding cities , America is being hammered and Americans are dying . Right now .
And it ’ s expensive . Individual families ( and their insurance companies ) are bearing the brunt of the burden right now , but as climate disasters continue to scale up it ’ s going to not only cost more and more American homes and lives , it ’ s also already costing the country hundreds of billions — soon to be trillions — every year .
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