A warming planet is creating a booming, and dangerous, disaster-restoration industry

Photo caption: A construction worker pushes wheelbarrow in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, on November 2, 2022, after Hurricane Ian devastated the area. Photo credit: Eva Marie Uzcategui / AFP via Getty Images. Article by Janelle Retka, Samantha McCabe, Jiahui Huang and María Inés Zamudio, Columbia Journalism Investigations and The Center for Public Integrity. Grist – September 30, 2023.

Standing before a two-story house on the coast of Fort Myers Beach, Florida, where Hurricane Ian unleashed a seven-foot storm surge two weeks earlier, Marcos looked at the structure, shredded beyond repair. Wearing a paper mask and gloves, the 54-year-old Nicaraguan immigrant walked inside. […]

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