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The cost of climate
inaction is too steep
Re: “Major flooding swamps Santa Cruz Mountains,” Page A1, Jan. 10:
Tuesday’s front-page headline looks very familiar. For the past two weeks, The Mercury News has featured the storms in California, and especially the Bay Area, either as a headline or somewhere on the front page. Not long ago, the headlines featured the devastation caused by wildfires. Not coincidentally, both of these types of events occur in the same areas, as barren hillsides give way to mudslides once the weather changes.
Extreme weather events caused $115 billion
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