Addressing Our Looming Climate Bankruptcy
by Frank Lowenstein and Evan Girvetz, via Planet Change In the wake of the economic crash of 2008, the resilience of millions of Americans’ personal finances collapsed in the face of unexpected stresses — loss of a job, collapse of a home’s value, decline in stock prices, or a medical emergency. Personal bankruptcy filings accelerated from just under 600,000 in 2006 to over 1.5 million in 2010. Sometimes the stresses piled on one another, as when the loss of a job deprived a family of medical insurance and then a medical emergency hit
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