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[Anomalocaris]

Believing in climate change doesn't mean you are preparing for climate change
Date: October 8, 2019
Source: University of Notre Dame
Summary: Researchers found that although coastal homeowners may perceive a worsening of climate change-related hazards, these attitudes are largely unrelated to a homeowner's expectations of actual home damage.

That depends on the home owner.   In Los Angeles, particularly in affluent heavily republican leaning coastal communities in orange county where public climate change denial seems to be prescribed in holy writ, houses near the cost but at an elevation above sea level an impressive multiple of the worse estimate of sea level rises in price in direct proportion to the fall in prices of houses near sea level.    Much of the demand for houses above the reach of rising sea level came from the very same wealthy people who are selling houses projected to be within reach of rising sea levels to move to hiring ground while publicly denying the reality of climate change and sea level rise.

It does seem very much like wealthy people who have the means to mitigate the effect of climate change on their them individually are not only taking steps, but taking exaggerated steps,  to protect themselves,  but that the same time publicly disputing the reality of climate change so as to not come under pressure to chip in to help those who do not have the means to mitigate the personal effects of climate change.