ASP Chair of the Business Council, Dante Disparte, In Huffington Post on Silver Lining of Harvey and Irma
On September 13th, 2017, ASP Chair of the Business Council, Dante Disparte, authored an article for the Huffington Post outlining how Hurricanes Irma and Harvey have forced the US to take notice of the realities of climate change. In the article, he discusses the existing problems in US risk management infrastructure, and he argues that “a broad commitment among the world’s governments and businesses to quickly raise and diversify spending on research and development on energy technologies” will be needed to combat the risks of climate change.
Disparte provides several suggestions to mitigate the global disequilibrium caused by climate change. He argues that taxpayer money that goes to national catastrophe insurance programming could be spent more effectively elsewhere, in creating additional subsidies to build wind-resistant and wind-proof housing or to disincentive building in risk prone areas. He concludes by noting that climate change disequilibrium weighs especially heavily on underdeveloped countries, and that efforts to mitigate the risk imbalance between advanced and underdeveloped economies “will help stem the tide of forced migration, terrorism and other global threats in the era of man-made risks.”
Read “Harvey and Irma Could Have a Silver Lining” in its entirety in the Huffington Post.
