Hurricane Harvey Isn't About Climate Change, It's About Bad Federal Policy




Reason Podcast show

Summary: As the media and politicians rush to blame the intensity of and damage from Hurricane Harvey on climate change and zoning, Ray Lehmann of R Street wants to talk about a more obvious villain: public policies that use tax dollars to subsidize development and population growth in flood-prone areas. Harvey, he says, isn't a weather problem, it's a "people problem."