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    Commentary: One thing we know about the Maui wildfires: Some of those most responsible won’t pay a cent

    by Caroline Levine, Los Angeles Times Aug 22, 2023 3 minutes
    In an aerial view, burned cars and homes are seen in a neighborhood that was destroyed by a wildfire on Aug. 18, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. At least 111 people were killed and thousands were displaced after a wind driven wildfire devastated the towns of Lahaina and Kula early last week. Crews are continuing to search for missing people.

    Maui faces devastating economic costs beyond its intolerable human loss and suffering from recent wildfires. Scorched homes and businesses reduced to rubble won’t be rebuilt quickly; cleaning up their remnants, some of them toxic, won’t be cheap. Rebuilding costs have been estimated at $5.5 billion.

    Who will pay for this? Most of us will, to varying degrees, but some of those most responsible — the fossil fuel companies that play a key role in such climate-related disasters — won’t.

    Extreme weather events always take their highest economic toll on the communities directly hit. Maui’s

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