Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
I think market fetishization here runs into incoherence.

The market is what has pushed settlement and development of all these vulnerable areas, cyclically. Which areas globally - land categorized as flood risk - probably support the life of the majority of the human population and cannot be abandoned. Heck, look at Florida.

We can't all live in Nebraska, and the government won't fund it either without a Titan or kaiju threat.
Humans can build dwellings that can survive in outer space, on the moon and yes, even on flood plans. They've been doing so for thousands of years (often the trick is piles that rise above the flood water - of course these days doors and windows can be waterproofed and even one way valves can be fitted in waste pipes). The difference is that developers are greedy, government ineffective and customers ignorant / desperate that houses that are not fit for purpose get built.