{"id":76175,"date":"2025-12-11T19:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/?p=76175"},"modified":"2025-12-11T19:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:01:16","slug":"the-disaster-economy-who-benefits-and-who-pays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/the-disaster-economy-who-benefits-and-who-pays\/","title":{"rendered":"The disaster economy: who benefits, and who pays?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2025\/12\/7abecb10-gp0su6so6-1024x683.jpg\" title=\"Climate March 2025 in New York. \u00a9 Tim Aubry \/ Greenpeace\" alt=\"Climate March 2025 in New York. \u00a9 Tim Aubry \/ Greenpeace\" class=\"wp-image-76176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2025\/12\/7abecb10-gp0su6so6-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2025\/12\/7abecb10-gp0su6so6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2025\/12\/7abecb10-gp0su6so6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2025\/12\/7abecb10-gp0su6so6-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2025\/12\/7abecb10-gp0su6so6.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Greenpeace USA and allies from across the globe march down Park Ave\/\u201dBillionaires\u2019 Row\u201d during the 2025 Make Billionaires Pay March in New York City.<div class=\"credit icon-left\"> \u00a9 Tim Aubry \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-who-should-pay-when-disaster-strikes\">Who should pay when disaster strikes?<\/h2>\n\n<p>Last month, Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica and surrounding islands and <a href=\"https:\/\/yaleclimateconnections.org\/2025\/10\/catastrophic-hurricane-melissa-hits-jamaica-as-the-strongest-landfalling-atlantic-hurricane-on-record\/\">broke records<\/a> for the strongest Atlantic hurricane to hit land. Deadly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lshtm.ac.uk\/newsevents\/news\/2025\/climate-change-driven-summer-heat-caused-16500-additional-deaths-across-europe\">heatwaves<\/a> in Europe, <a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/features\/pakistan-climate-floods\">floods<\/a> in Pakistan, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/event-tracker\/weather-and-climate-influences-january-2025-fires-around-los-angeles\">fires<\/a> in Southern California, and other extreme weather events this year offer a stark preview of our climate future. Catastrophic disasters and extreme weather are becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/wmo.int\/media\/news\/extreme-weather-new-norm\">more common<\/a> and more severe every year as climate change fuels extreme conditions. This climate reality is propelling the growth of an industry dedicated to disaster relief and preparedness, a clear market response to an escalating crisis.<\/p>\n\n<p>In July, we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/fossil-fuel-polluters-want-you-to-clean-up-their-mess-we-can-stop-them\/\">reported<\/a> on the ways fossil fuel polluters impede and delay climate progress and how they make us pay the price. Now, costs from disaster recovery, insurance premiums, power outages, and more cover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/professional\/insights\/sustainable-finance\/disaster-spending-hits-new-highs\/\">about 3%<\/a> of US GDP, or around $1 trillion dollars. The share of GDP spent on disaster preparedness and relief is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2025-06-30\/ignoring-a-7-trillion-financial-disaster-won-t-make-it-go-away\">growing<\/a>. New research is showing that even more corporate actors are benefitting from the severe weather brought on by climate change.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/12eBs\">Research<\/a> on the disaster industry finds the sector is booming. Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analyst Andrew John Stevenson collated about 100 large public companies called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/professional\/insights\/sustainable-finance\/climate-stocks-storm-past-sp-500\/\">Prepare and Repair Index<\/a>. The companies covered sectors like industrial materials, utilities, manufacturing, waste, and insurance brokers that deal in disasters and severe weather. Stevenson found that together the companies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/professional\/insights\/sustainable-finance\/climate-stocks-storm-past-sp-500\/\">outperformed<\/a> the S&amp;P 500 by 6.5% a year between October 2015 to October 2025.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>The Trump administration has promised to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/16\/climate\/fema-disaster-recovery-trump.html\">phase out FEMA<\/a> and move the responsibility for preparing and recovering from disasters to state and local governments. The move shifts the burden of disaster readiness onto smaller jurisdictions that <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/emissary\/2025\/03\/fema-disaster-recovery-budget-cuts-state-impact?lang=en\">cannot afford it<\/a> and will be forced to make hard choices with high priority items like education and healthcare. Similarly, these state and local governments are not equipped to be able to respond <a href=\"https:\/\/umbc.edu\/stories\/if-fema-didnt-exist-could-states-handle-the-disaster-response-alone\/\">as effectively<\/a> as the federal government \u2013 the result could be less support and more financial burden on the very communities facing extreme weather disasters.<\/p>\n\n<p>Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/12eBs\">reported<\/a> that an executive from an engineering firm justified the growth of the disaster-industrial complex in a recent earnings call, saying that defending people and property from hazards wasn\u2019t a partisan issue. But the growth of the disaster relief industry is a symptom of a deeper failure: the retreat of public safeguards and the unchecked escalation of the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>We cannot accept a future where safety from climate disasters and extreme weather is a for-profit commodity.<\/strong> Polluters who fuel the climate crisis need to be footing the bill to clean up the mess they are creating.<\/p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s time for corporations who continue to worsen extreme weather and disasters are held accountable. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/engage.us.greenpeace.org\/LCQFjZ_3Dke1IXlmkiUobg2\">Take action and tell governments worldwide that the people should not be paying the bill for climate disasters: sign the Polluters Pay Pact today.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout  \"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action 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