Ways to Deal With Disaster Season Without the Trillion-Dollar Price Tag

Commentary It’s now officially summer in Australia, which is also, semi-officially, the season of fire, droughts, cyclones (hurricanes), and floods.  So queue the summer litanies demanding the federal government do more to limit CO2 emissions. Indeed, my home state of Queensland has already had its first outbreak of bushfires with firies battling 420 fires and 32 houses in the township of Tara, which was almost burnt to the ground.  Now we’re looking at our first cyclone of the season, Jasper, currently within 600 kilometres off the coast and heading inbound. Both these events are unseasonably early, so I expect the climate flagellants to be even more shrill than ever....