That is, hurricanes are more "destructive" than they were fifty years
ago because there has been a growth of population, buildings,
and infrastructure in hurricane-prone areas in the last fifty years.
There's more to destroy...
So, water rationing? Less rainfall, or more people and
consumption?
The beach-front homes that see waves breaking on the door step -
were they there fifty years ago, or were the beach-bum shacks
just washed away and rebuilt with the what the next tide
brought in?
&c., &c., &c.
There was a report once that asserted the reason bleeding heart leftists have dysfunctional thought processes is because their bleeding hearts drain the brain's blood supply thus putting tremendous stresses in/on the brains northern and southern hemispheres which affects both the bilateral and subcutaneous latitudes of their medulla oblongotcha.
I think there is a grant available to Ivy League graduate students so they can learn how to best use the dysfunctional to their advantage.
word.