Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left podcast.

Just as COVID tended to expose the pre-existing fractures and inequalities in our society causing undue harm,

supercharged by disinformation, so do natural disasters.

And the impact of disinformation and conspiracy has only grown in recent years.

Sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes today includes un-Fing the republic,

the Bradcast, Democracy Now, CounterSpin, Alex Wagner tonight, and all in with Chris Hayes.

Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in four sections.

Section A, Natural Disasters, Section B, Intersectional Issues, Section C, Politics, and Section D, Trump, and Disinformation. information.

A relative of mine who works in the renewable energy financing sector said something a couple of years ago that really stuck with me.

He and his wife were thinking about having a child and evaluating the best places to start a family

while keeping their career prospects open.

Now as a New Yorker, I'm used to these conversations

all along the age spectrum because of the insane cost of living here.

And it seems like nine out of ten relocation conversations

involved somewhere in the southeast of the United States.

So and so moved to Florida.

Our friends just bought a place in South Carolina, twice the size, half the price.

There's a ton of New Yorkers in North Carolina. It just feels like home.

Blah, blah, blah. But my relative wasn't thinking that way.

According to the models he and his team had built, a band of real estate from upstate New York all the way

through Quebec will have more favorable climate conditions in the coming decades.

Investing down south was simply more of a risk for the large-scale projects they work on because, you know, climate change.

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