Every disaster's just an opportunity

For profit. And to invite bigger disaster.

But in the 30 years that she has lived in the region, she said, people seem to be learning the wrong lessons. Devastating coastal storms now serve not as warnings but as engines of development, sweeping existing structures away and leaving clear land for bigger and better buildings. “That’s been a typical response since the early 1980s,” Dr. Rees said. (NYT)

The epitome of some of the greatest strengths and weaknesses of humans?