Get ready As we go to the storm season, fire season and flood season, which are all deteriorating because the planet is getting hot, our federal government is not equipped to help you prepare, run away from running, or to respond to disaster. In fact, it is apparently No plans in writing How will the federal government respond to disasters this year.
As internal reviewThe Federal Emergency Management Agency is not ready to help Americans this year, and if President Trump has said in the matter, it will never be ready. Tusrap Disintegration plan Agency completely by December. And even if he is not serious about finishing FEMA and opposes improving it instead, the cut to the agency has already become destructive.
This is a serious security situation, which potentially keeps us all in the way of damage. Since 1979, FEMA has been a life -saving service, which helps Americans to undergo the worst of a disaster. Dissolve it, as wants to trump, is extremely irresponsible and makes hundreds of Americans more vulnerable because disasters deteriorate, take more human life, and cause more damage to infrastructure.
The toll keeps increasing. The last few years are Broken historical record For the total number of Arab-dollar disasters from the extreme weather, its growth has been exponential due to global warming.
Now we are witnesses, cumulatively, each year there are hundreds of deaths due to the destruction of hundreds of billions of dollars and disasters on federal aid. Meanwhile, Americans across this country are being released into Lurch.
The time to act is now.
First, we need to do everything in our power to protect federal emergency management resources and expertise, before they disintegrate or reduce them further. Already, there are there People are being assigned For FEMA leadership roles by Trump administration that do not have any emergency management experience. Meanwhile, such as cuts in major programs flood control There is a lot of continuing in communities across America. It has to be stopped.
Bipartite Attempt To improve FEMA in the Congress – by investing in flexibility and risk mitigation, providing more efficient financial resources to local governments, and supporting permanent repair for infrastructure vs. temporary reforms – all are welcome. This is a subsidiary improvement.
Second, we need to double to work in the past. For example, the building was flexible infrastructure and community programs Recently canceled Even though it was extremely popular with both sides and was first started during the Trump administration. It should be restored and completely funded.
Local governments require such support when flexible infrastructure is formed as they brace for winds and water incidences, fire and flood deterioration. Most of the urban infrastructure in the US was not well created for age and eventually faced what we are seeing. Retrofits are required across the country to preserve life and damage is avoided. Flexibility hubThose who are rolling out many cities and counties locally, providing life -saving resources for Americans, but all communities require federal support to cover and no American is left behind.
Now more than ever, it is necessary for those communities to expand the technology of smart cities that are required for bipartisan supports that are experiencing the effects of climate change. We have the responsibility of American people to improve the quality of life of every citizen by providing resources and technology to equip our cities and towns with the equipment required to become a climate-flexible community.
Legislatures like Smart Cities and Communities Act will provide equal opportunities and improve the infrastructure of our cities to combat the destructive effects of natural disasters due to climate crisis.
There is an opportunity to create a national bilateral initiative that focuses on making the US more flexible for rapid disastrous disasters and shaking. Such a national effort cannot be done on more patriotism or time. And it will save life and save money. There is no question that weather events are becoming more deadly and destructive. This is the time of the past when we took them seriously and invested in the US that is capable of preparing it.
Yweet d. Clarke represents the 9th Congress district of New York and works in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Michael Shank is an assistant faculty at the Global Affairs Center at New York University and is a visiting scholar at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution of George Mason University.
