Climate Change Is Tough On Personal Finances

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🗓️ 29 June 2022

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A majority of people say they have experienced extreme weather in the last five years, according to a nationwide survey conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

And events like floods, wildfires and hurricanes are emptying bank accounts--especially when insurance can't cover the damage. Aaron Scott talks to science reporter Rebecca Hersher about the new survey, and the hidden ways climate change could impact your finances.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:05.0	Hi, Aaron.
0:07.0	Hey, Becky Herscher.
0:08.0	So, question for you.
0:10.0	What do you think about when you hear the words extreme weather?
0:13.0	Extreme weather.
0:14.0	I think about the heat wave that parked on the northwest last summer
0:18.0	and made us feel like we're living in an oven.
0:20.0	Yeah.
0:21.0	And I also think about climate change,
0:23.0	because I mean, that's when I notice it the most,
0:25.0	when the weather is weird and bad and scary.
0:28.0	Yeah, that makes sense.
0:30.0	So, you know, I cover climate change.
0:32.0	We have a whole climate team here at NPR, exactly.
0:35.0	And we wanted to know more about this exact thing.
0:39.0	Like, what are people's individual experiences
0:42.0	with extreme weather in the US?
0:44.0	So, we did a national survey.
0:46.0	I love surveys.
0:47.0	How did it happen?
0:48.0	So, we wrote some survey questions
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