Brian Stone
@brianstonejr.bsky.social
Professor of urban planning, director of the Urban Climate Lab at Georgia Tech, and believer in radical climate adaptation: urbanclimate.gatech.edu
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The Abundance Movement’s Blind Spot | NOEMA
What if Americans care more about the cost of climate disasters than carbon-free energy?
www.noemamag.com
Our present politics -- even on the political left -- tends to overlook the potential for adaptive urbanism to reframe the way we think about cities. A new essay in Noema Magazine (@noemamag.com) explores this shortcoming of the abundance movement:
Hurricane Melissa – ranking among the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes to make landfall – sees it differently. As does Jamaica:
Bill Gates says climate crisis won’t cause ‘humanity’s demise’ in call to shift focus to ‘improving lives’
Billionaire’s statement comes a day after UN said humanity missed 1.5C climate target and warned of devastation
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Hurricane Melissa – ranking among the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes to make landfall – sees it differently. As does Jamaica:
Reposted by Brian Stone
One of the many things @ninalakhani.bsky.social does so well is show the very real, very now cost of climate change at the most human level. This story is devastatingly good: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story
Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
One of the many things @ninalakhani.bsky.social does so well is show the very real, very now cost of climate change at the most human level. This story is devastatingly good: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Brian Stone
Residential policyholders across California could be paying several hundred million dollars to help cover the costs of claims arising out of the January firestorms in Los Angeles County.
Laurence Darmiento
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Laurence Darmiento
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
California insurers set to charge homeowners for L.A. County fire costs
Residential policyholders across California could be paying several hundred million dollars to help cover the costs of claims arising out of the January firestorms in Los Angeles County.
www.latimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Residential policyholders across California could be paying several hundred million dollars to help cover the costs of claims arising out of the January firestorms in Los Angeles County.
Laurence Darmiento
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Laurence Darmiento
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Accounting for $110 billion in special appropriations for disaster relief after Hurricanes Milton and Helene, the total cost of disaster relief in 2024 exceeded every discretionary federal budget item with the exception of education. No wonder they've stopped counting in 2025:
In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes on Pace to Break a Record
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Accounting for $110 billion in special appropriations for disaster relief after Hurricanes Milton and Helene, the total cost of disaster relief in 2024 exceeded every discretionary federal budget item with the exception of education. No wonder they've stopped counting in 2025:
Our present politics -- even on the political left -- tends to overlook the potential for adaptive urbanism to reframe the way we think about cities. A new essay in Noema Magazine (@noemamag.com) explores this shortcoming of the abundance movement:
The Abundance Movement’s Blind Spot | NOEMA
What if Americans care more about the cost of climate disasters than carbon-free energy?
www.noemamag.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Our present politics -- even on the political left -- tends to overlook the potential for adaptive urbanism to reframe the way we think about cities. A new essay in Noema Magazine (@noemamag.com) explores this shortcoming of the abundance movement:
I explore the idea of adaptive urbanism in an essay on the missed opportunities of rebuilding after climate disasters -- we need to understand retreat as a process of renewal rather than one of abandonment:
The Lunacy Of Rebuilding In Disaster-Prone Areas | NOEMA
Why do we keep rebuilding (and subsidizing) areas that are all but certain to flood again, to burn again, to fall into the ocean? It’s time to rethink climate adaptation, with retreat as the first ste...
www.noemamag.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I explore the idea of adaptive urbanism in an essay on the missed opportunities of rebuilding after climate disasters -- we need to understand retreat as a process of renewal rather than one of abandonment:
The idea is simple. The choices that render cities too expensive, arduous to move through, and aesthetically uninspiring also elevate climate risk. Cities cannot be made more resilient to climate impacts without making them more affordable, navigable, and beautiful. I call this adaptive urbanism.
October 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The idea is simple. The choices that render cities too expensive, arduous to move through, and aesthetically uninspiring also elevate climate risk. Cities cannot be made more resilient to climate impacts without making them more affordable, navigable, and beautiful. I call this adaptive urbanism.