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Natural disasters cost Americans 50 billion dollars a year—a price tag that has doubled in only a decade. Natural Hazards Observer editor Sylvia Dane attributes the increase to a growing population, and she rues Americans’ reluctance to face and anticipate the dangers inherent in surroundings such as floodplains and shorelines.
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