You would think that someone in government was smart enough to realise that those billions of dollars were better spent controlling population growth and moving to a green economy.

Or we could ignore the problem and watch the world go bankrupt trying to continually rebuild.

There are many communities here in the UK that can no longer get house insurance because of the increased threat from weather events. People living by continually flooding rivers or near areas of coastal erosion. Your house floods, no insurance to cover it.