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One Planet: Who should pay the costs for climate change-related disasters?

  

On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, Jason Mark, editor of SIERRA, the magazine of the Sierra Club, will discuss his cover story about the mounting price tag of climate change disasters.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2017 was the most expensive year for natural disasters in US history, costing a total of $306 billion. He asks: who should pay the costs for climate change-related disasters?

Guest:
Jason Mark, editor of SIERRA, and author of Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man
Web Resources:
SIERRA: The Case for Climate Reparations

 

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.