Liz Weil

Maybe. You know, human beings are not rational. ProPublica's main climate reporter lives in a really fire-prone area and loves it. Like, it's just where his home is. So, like, people make these choices for lots of reasons, not just their climate risk. And, frankly, insurance is a big part of that. Like, a whole complicated other story of are we really paying what the risk is in insurance? Sure.

Maybe. You know, human beings are not rational. ProPublica's main climate reporter lives in a really fire-prone area and loves it. Like, it's just where his home is. So, like, people make these choices for lots of reasons, not just their climate risk. And, frankly, insurance is a big part of that. Like, a whole complicated other story of are we really paying what the risk is in insurance? Sure.

Maybe. You know, human beings are not rational. ProPublica's main climate reporter lives in a really fire-prone area and loves it. Like, it's just where his home is. So, like, people make these choices for lots of reasons, not just their climate risk. And, frankly, insurance is a big part of that. Like, a whole complicated other story of are we really paying what the risk is in insurance? Sure.

From talking to people, it seems to be the consensus that it's often very hard to make the decision that I should relocate right after your house is burned down, when you just want to get back home, when you just want to get back into your house again, and where whole counties are in distress and it's not really a great moment to have to make a whole new plan.

From talking to people, it seems to be the consensus that it's often very hard to make the decision that I should relocate right after your house is burned down, when you just want to get back home, when you just want to get back into your house again, and where whole counties are in distress and it's not really a great moment to have to make a whole new plan.

From talking to people, it seems to be the consensus that it's often very hard to make the decision that I should relocate right after your house is burned down, when you just want to get back home, when you just want to get back into your house again, and where whole counties are in distress and it's not really a great moment to have to make a whole new plan.

So one of the smartest people in FIRE had said to me, it's really his belief that the communities need to have planned ahead. that if you live in a fire prone county or city, It would be really prudent to have a plan of what you're going to do and what your citizens are going to do if there's a huge fire.

So one of the smartest people in FIRE had said to me, it's really his belief that the communities need to have planned ahead. that if you live in a fire prone county or city, It would be really prudent to have a plan of what you're going to do and what your citizens are going to do if there's a huge fire.

So one of the smartest people in FIRE had said to me, it's really his belief that the communities need to have planned ahead. that if you live in a fire prone county or city, It would be really prudent to have a plan of what you're going to do and what your citizens are going to do if there's a huge fire.

And are people going to rebuild their houses exactly where their footprints were in exactly the same fire-prone way? Or are you going to try to rebuild in a far more fire-safe kind of configuration of your city or your county? Or are people going to have plans to move? It's just so emotional. Like you're saying, you live in New Orleans. I'm sure you live there because you like it. Yeah.

And are people going to rebuild their houses exactly where their footprints were in exactly the same fire-prone way? Or are you going to try to rebuild in a far more fire-safe kind of configuration of your city or your county? Or are people going to have plans to move? It's just so emotional. Like you're saying, you live in New Orleans. I'm sure you live there because you like it. Yeah.

And are people going to rebuild their houses exactly where their footprints were in exactly the same fire-prone way? Or are you going to try to rebuild in a far more fire-safe kind of configuration of your city or your county? Or are people going to have plans to move? It's just so emotional. Like you're saying, you live in New Orleans. I'm sure you live there because you like it. Yeah.

Yeah. So it's sort of the same thing, the idea of managed retreat from sea level rise and people don't use the term as often, but it's the same situation of like, are people going to like retreat from these incredibly fire prone areas? Like my, my parents and my aunt all had houses in the same little cul-de-sac in Napa. And yeah, Where in 2017, like my aunt's house burned to the ground.

Yeah. So it's sort of the same thing, the idea of managed retreat from sea level rise and people don't use the term as often, but it's the same situation of like, are people going to like retreat from these incredibly fire prone areas? Like my, my parents and my aunt all had houses in the same little cul-de-sac in Napa. And yeah, Where in 2017, like my aunt's house burned to the ground.

Yeah. So it's sort of the same thing, the idea of managed retreat from sea level rise and people don't use the term as often, but it's the same situation of like, are people going to like retreat from these incredibly fire prone areas? Like my, my parents and my aunt all had houses in the same little cul-de-sac in Napa. And yeah, Where in 2017, like my aunt's house burned to the ground.

My parents' house a few doors away did not, but just by luck. The whole community rebuilt right there because that's what the insurance money was. Whatever. There's so much inertia in that moment. And it's also completely insane to rebuild in some of these places.

My parents' house a few doors away did not, but just by luck. The whole community rebuilt right there because that's what the insurance money was. Whatever. There's so much inertia in that moment. And it's also completely insane to rebuild in some of these places.

My parents' house a few doors away did not, but just by luck. The whole community rebuilt right there because that's what the insurance money was. Whatever. There's so much inertia in that moment. And it's also completely insane to rebuild in some of these places.

You know, I haven't paid super close attention to what's going on now, but the big story of water in California is agriculture, not salmon. It's really not. So to me, it's like if you're not talking about agriculture when you're talking about water in California, you're having a completely disingenuous conversation.

You know, I haven't paid super close attention to what's going on now, but the big story of water in California is agriculture, not salmon. It's really not. So to me, it's like if you're not talking about agriculture when you're talking about water in California, you're having a completely disingenuous conversation.