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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) confirmed the government won’t help to rebuild areas of the state devastated by Hurricane Helene last month, and will instead opt to buy out the land.
Cooper claimed during a New York Times climate forum earlier this month that climate change was causing more frequent hurricanes and because of that, government land grabs were a more prudent approach to rebuilding.
“North Carolina had two ‘500-year storms’ within 20 months of each other in the same place. We just had a ‘thousand-year’ storm event. We know that that’s not true anymore. We know that these events are becoming more and more intense,” Cooper said.
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🚨 Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina just confirmed that Certain Areas won’t be Rebuilt and they’re Buying Out Entire Communities Affected by “Climate Change”
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“We’ve spent a lot of time being smart about the way we approach rebuilding. We go into communities, we work with them, we have plans for local governments. In some areas, you just shouldn’t build back.”
“And we’ve been able to convince certain communities and people that buyouts are better. And you create green space that soaks up flood water that comes and protects surrounding areas,” he continued.
“When you do build back, you have to invest more in order for property to be more resilient. But when it is elevated, we even saw in some of the storm’s subsequent that those properties were unaffected because we had made them more resilient.”
Cooper also said he was able to convince some Republicans to go along with the Democrat “Build Back Better” agenda to fight climate change.
“So those are the challenges that we’re facing every day. And it’s one of the reasons why we’ve been able to get a number of Republican local officials, particularly on the coast who said, OK, guys, climate change is here,” he said.
“We know that we have to do something about it. We know that the United States is the leader in the world [that] needs to set an example, North Carolina needs to set an example. And so we’ve gotten a number of them on board.”
“There’s still a lot of climate denialists out there,” Cooper added.
Like with Hurricane Helene, the media was quick to blame climate change for the wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii, that decimated the entire area last year and killed over 112 people.
Hawaii Governor Josh Green (D) soon after announced that his administration was looking into acquiring the destroyed Lahaina properties.
“I’m already thinking about ways for the state to acquire that land so we can put it into workforce housing, to put it back into families, or to make it open spaces in perpetuity as a memorial to people who were lost,” he said.
“We don’t want this to become a clear space where then, yes, people from overseas just come and decide they’re going to take it. The state will take it and preserve it first.
“All those buildings are eventually going to have to be rebuilt. It will be a new Lahaina. In its own image, its own values. But it’s going to be billions of dollars,” Green added.
Darryl Oliveira, who serves on the Hawaii Advisory Council on Emergency Management, an advisory board to Gov. Green, just this week cited climate change as a factor in the Lahaina wildfires.
“I know some of the conversations taking place with lessons learned from Lahaina and with climate change are, what are some of the land use and fuel management practices specific to wildfire that may need to be stepped up, and also maintenance strategies,” Oliveira said. “The other thing is the preparedness of the community, how important that is, with making sure community members understand the risks and threats they live with, what they as individuals can do to help mitigate the risks and be better informed.”
The Democrats’ Build Back Better agenda is simply an arm of the globalist Agenda 2030 meant to acquire property to usher in a technocratic smart-city nightmare under the guise of fighting climate change.
