Can FEMA Keep Up With Climate Change?
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🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Climate change is causing unprecedented severe weather. Is the agency prepared for it to get worse?
Guest: Craig Fugate and Ashley Nerbovig
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 1:07.9 | Not too long ago, I saw this quote from a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| 1:13.6 | that made me sit up and pay attention. It was about the massive floods that swept through Montana |
| 1:19.3 | in mid-June and the people whose homes had been damaged or destroyed. He said it really well |
| 1:24.4 | here where he says, I always tell people this is a tough line to tell people take responsibility |
| 1:28.5 | for your own disaster recovery. That's Ashley Nurbavig, a senior political reporter for MTN news |
| 1:34.2 | in Montana. She's been covering the floods and the communities where people were told not to wait |
| 1:39.8 | on the federal government to come save them. Maybe at some point you will get money back from us, |
| 1:44.0 | but it won't make you whole, which I think is like a very sensible approach from a spokesperson |
| 1:50.5 | perspective, but then it goes back to the policymakers of, okay, so what are we saying to these people |
| 1:55.5 | who had no reason to think that their homes were going to get flooded that this is on them sort of. |
| 2:04.0 | Those people whose homes flooded, many of them didn't have flood insurance, |
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