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Poverty should not hinder survival from disasters. Being a person that is not White should n’t limit your survival. – Chauncia Willis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think we need to quit being uncomfortable talking about the intersection of climate change, racism, and disasters, the reality is we have long systemic racist problems across our country, and because of these things, when a disaster comes, it’s much more devastating. – Sally Ray	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re basically constantly in a state of recovery in response to climate disasters, this is why we are so passionate on the climate change front, because this is our reality, and we need to deal with it, and we need other countries to assist us to deal with it. – Ralph Regenvanu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The funds created for earthquake preparedness have been used for projects such as road constructions, infrastructure build-ups, etc. other than earthquake preparedness, in other words, no buffers or cushions have been set in place to limit the economic impacts of such disasters. – Arda Tunca	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have decided to declare a state of emergency to ensure that operations are carried out rapidly, we are facing one of the biggest disasters not only of the history of the Turkish republic but also of our geography and the world. – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Climate change is intensifying many of these extremes that lead to billion-dollar disasters. – Adam Smith	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Time is of the essence, because all of these extremes, impacts, disasters, and fatalities have happened, there’s so many different lessons across many parts of the country, for many different disaster types and many different populations that we can start to implement. And sooner is certainly better. – Adam Smith	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One of the things that I have known, and I have experienced, responding to other disasters is that there are people that often have a hard time accessing our programs, there are barriers to our program, one of our focus areas, since I’ve been in office, is to make sure that we’re removing those barriers. – Deanne Criswell	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I don't think the funeral will be the last great global event of the television era, but, alas, the great global TV events of the future will probably be disasters : an assassination, a terrorist attack, a deliberate or accidental nuclear event, a huge natural disaster, a pandemic, a coup in a major North American democracy — something everyone will have to watch. – Thomas Doherty	Found on CNN 1 year ago
American Contingency is a company founded by former U.S. servicemember Mike Glover, who has publicly rejected the FBI’s accusations that Mike Glover is Mike Glover and has described American Contingency’s charitable work on behalf of communities devastated by natural disasters. – Jim Jordan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Blind loyalty and ideological purity tests must never determine who we trust with securing our nation’s borders, fortifying federal IT systems, caring for seniors and veterans, fighting public health threats, or responding to natural disasters. – Gerry Connolly	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We can not afford to put politics over the rights of people, and particularly safeguarding people from hurricanes and other disasters, because we are on the front lines of climate change. – Mayor Cantrell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Continued high temperature has accelerated glacial melting in mountainous areas, and caused natural disasters such as flash floods, mudslides, and landslides in many places. – Chen Chunyan	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
Only a very small fraction of disaster spending is committed to preparedness and resilience building. We would expect to see a big shift in this ratio to see a much bigger focus on preparedness given the escalating risk of climate-fuelled disasters. – Amanda McKenzie	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Cyclones are no doubt one of the costliest natural disasters everywhere, what's happening with global warming is that these underlying conditions are getting more unfavorable for cyclones to form in the first place. But even though cyclones are getting fewer, those that do form are now feeding more energy from the warming atmosphere, so that's why they're getting more intense. – Savin Chand	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I have plans to expand to all refugees in general, refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, any victims of natural disasters or wars, it is just as important they can find available housing, too, and we're going to make that happen. – Avi Schiffmann	Found on CNN 2 years ago
And so this will give us more people to be able to do things like respond if there's disorder, like respond to disasters and all those other things. It also gives us the ability to have people who are not subject to federal requirements. So, for example, [the federal government] wouldn't be able to mobilize and deploy people who are in the State Guard, they also wouldn't be able to impose mandates on people in the State Guard. They are trying to do that with the federal guard. And so I think it will help us complete our mission and will also allow us to do in a way which is not subject to the whims of the federal government. – Ron DeSantis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What's concerning about National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is it's yet another year in a series of years where we have both a high frequency, high cost and a large diversity of these extreme events that affect people's lives and livelihoods, over the last five years, the United States has experienced almost $ 750 billion of damages from these billion-dollar disasters, which is really off the charts. – Adam Smith	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When it comes to disasters, we tend to overly focus on disaster recovery in the context of rebuilding structures as opposed to re-establishing social systems and processes, the traditions and the social capital and the networks and celebrating holidays are part of re-establishing those social systems and processes — but we don't focus on those things. – Marccus Hendricks	Found on CNN 2 years ago
With these allocations, we are addressing climate justice in hard-hit communities that can now begin the process of building back better from disasters and improving long-term, equitable resilience to future impacts of climate change. – Marcia Fudge	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
As our nation confronts the impacts of climate change, the challenge is clear. It is imperative that we invest in building a more resilient nation. Our programs and policies must protect communities and the economy from the worst impacts of climate-related disasters before they occur. – Deanne Criswell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
And D.C. keep talking about, ‘We’re a resilient city.’ And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man, be careful. – Robert White	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
A lot of the disasters that happen in the Caribbean, in the Bahamas, in Florida or in Louisiana and Haiti, and we can get there easily. We also have a big warehouse in Miami, which is a great shipping port. Or use trucks depending on where the disaster is… if it's a place we really can access easily we can make a massive impact. – John Lamparski/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Today the Biden Administration sued every individual in Texas. Biden should focus on fixing the border crisis, Afghanistan, the economy and countless other disasters instead of meddling in state’s sovereign rights. I will use every available resource to fight for life. – Ken Paxton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

Poverty should not hinder survival from disasters. Being a person that is not White should n’t limit your survival.

– Chauncia Willis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we need to quit being uncomfortable talking about the intersection of climate change, racism, and disasters, the reality is we have long systemic racist problems across our country, and because of these things, when a disaster comes, it’s much more devastating.

– Sally Ray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re basically constantly in a state of recovery in response to climate disasters, this is why we are so passionate on the climate change front, because this is our reality, and we need to deal with it, and we need other countries to assist us to deal with it.

– Ralph Regenvanu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The funds created for earthquake preparedness have been used for projects such as road constructions, infrastructure build-ups, etc. other than earthquake preparedness, in other words, no buffers or cushions have been set in place to limit the economic impacts of such disasters.

– Arda Tunca

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have decided to declare a state of emergency to ensure that operations are carried out rapidly, we are facing one of the biggest disasters not only of the history of the Turkish republic but also of our geography and the world.

– Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Climate change is intensifying many of these extremes that lead to billion-dollar disasters.

– Adam Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Time is of the essence, because all of these extremes, impacts, disasters, and fatalities have happened, there’s so many different lessons across many parts of the country, for many different disaster types and many different populations that we can start to implement. And sooner is certainly better.

– Adam Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the things that I have known, and I have experienced, responding to other disasters is that there are people that often have a hard time accessing our programs, there are barriers to our program, one of our focus areas, since I’ve been in office, is to make sure that we’re removing those barriers.

– Deanne Criswell

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I don't think the funeral will be the last great global event of the television era, but, alas, the great global TV events of the future will probably be disasters : an assassination, a terrorist attack, a deliberate or accidental nuclear event, a huge natural disaster, a pandemic, a coup in a major North American democracy — something everyone will have to watch.

– Thomas Doherty

Found on CNN
1 year ago

American Contingency is a company founded by former U.S. servicemember Mike Glover, who has publicly rejected the FBI’s accusations that Mike Glover is Mike Glover and has described American Contingency’s charitable work on behalf of communities devastated by natural disasters.

– Jim Jordan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Blind loyalty and ideological purity tests must never determine who we trust with securing our nation’s borders, fortifying federal IT systems, caring for seniors and veterans, fighting public health threats, or responding to natural disasters.

– Gerry Connolly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We can not afford to put politics over the rights of people, and particularly safeguarding people from hurricanes and other disasters, because we are on the front lines of climate change.

– Mayor Cantrell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Continued high temperature has accelerated glacial melting in mountainous areas, and caused natural disasters such as flash floods, mudslides, and landslides in many places.

– Chen Chunyan

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

Only a very small fraction of disaster spending is committed to preparedness and resilience building. We would expect to see a big shift in this ratio to see a much bigger focus on preparedness given the escalating risk of climate-fuelled disasters.

– Amanda McKenzie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Cyclones are no doubt one of the costliest natural disasters everywhere, what's happening with global warming is that these underlying conditions are getting more unfavorable for cyclones to form in the first place. But even though cyclones are getting fewer, those that do form are now feeding more energy from the warming atmosphere, so that's why they're getting more intense.

– Savin Chand

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have plans to expand to all refugees in general, refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, any victims of natural disasters or wars, it is just as important they can find available housing, too, and we're going to make that happen.

– Avi Schiffmann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

And so this will give us more people to be able to do things like respond if there's disorder, like respond to disasters and all those other things. It also gives us the ability to have people who are not subject to federal requirements. So, for example, [the federal government] wouldn't be able to mobilize and deploy people who are in the State Guard, they also wouldn't be able to impose mandates on people in the State Guard. They are trying to do that with the federal guard. And so I think it will help us complete our mission and will also allow us to do in a way which is not subject to the whims of the federal government.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What's concerning about National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is it's yet another year in a series of years where we have both a high frequency, high cost and a large diversity of these extreme events that affect people's lives and livelihoods, over the last five years, the United States has experienced almost $ 750 billion of damages from these billion-dollar disasters, which is really off the charts.

– Adam Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When it comes to disasters, we tend to overly focus on disaster recovery in the context of rebuilding structures as opposed to re-establishing social systems and processes, the traditions and the social capital and the networks and celebrating holidays are part of re-establishing those social systems and processes — but we don't focus on those things.

– Marccus Hendricks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With these allocations, we are addressing climate justice in hard-hit communities that can now begin the process of building back better from disasters and improving long-term, equitable resilience to future impacts of climate change.

– Marcia Fudge

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

As our nation confronts the impacts of climate change, the challenge is clear. It is imperative that we invest in building a more resilient nation. Our programs and policies must protect communities and the economy from the worst impacts of climate-related disasters before they occur.

– Deanne Criswell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

And D.C. keep talking about, ‘We’re a resilient city.’ And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man, be careful.

– Robert White

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A lot of the disasters that happen in the Caribbean, in the Bahamas, in Florida or in Louisiana and Haiti, and we can get there easily. We also have a big warehouse in Miami, which is a great shipping port. Or use trucks depending on where the disaster is… if it's a place we really can access easily we can make a massive impact.

– John Lamparski/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today the Biden Administration sued every individual in Texas. Biden should focus on fixing the border crisis, Afghanistan, the economy and countless other disasters instead of meddling in state’s sovereign rights. I will use every available resource to fight for life.

– Ken Paxton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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