Per Capita US Disaster Costs For 2012 - $300; Higher Costs In Future Only Likely Outcome

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LONDON – Such losses, says Ceres, a U.S.-based non-profit organization which promotes environmentally sustainable business practices, are set to rise considerably in the years ahead as a result of climate change, imposing an ever bigger burden on the U.S. taxpayer.

Federal and state disaster relief payouts last year alone are estimated to have cost every person in the U.S. more than $300. Yet according to a new report by Ceres, Inaction on climate change: the cost to taxpayers, the U.S. administration, its agencies and state bodies are still not facing up to the grave financial implications of a warming world.

“Part of the reason for our collective shortsightedness is that the issue of climate change, and what to do about it, has become politicized in the U.S.,” it says.

The report says there have been at least 200 weather-related natural catastrophes annually in North America in recent years, compared to around 50 a year in the early 1980s.

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http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-will-pose-rising-burden-on-u.s.-taxpayer-16781

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