Skip to content
Grist home Donate
Subscribe to The Weekly

We hand-package the week’s best Grist stories. Delivered free every Saturday morning.

Celebrating 25 years of Grist
Grist home
  • Follow
    • Follow us on Facebook
    • Follow us on Twitter
    • Follow us on Instagram
    • Follow us on YouTube
    • Follow us on Bluesky

    Get a weekly dose of climate inspiration in your inbox

  • Donate
  • Donate

Menu

A nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.

Search

Go To

  • About
  • Support Us
  • Newsletters
  • Advertise
  • Become a Member
  • Events
  • The Grist 50
  • Imagine 2200 Cli-Fi
  • Pitch Us

Topics

  • Politics
  • Energy
  • Equity
  • Solutions
  • All Topics

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Twitter
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on YouTube
  • Follow us on Bluesky

Get a weekly dose of climate inspiration in your inbox

2nd markup

A look at the growing ‘disaster economy’ turning crisis into cash Two years after a wildfire took everything, Maui homeowners are facing a new threat: Foreclosure

sarthak
Published
Aug 12, 2025
Topic
Uncategorized
Share/Republish
Copy Link Republish
Copy Link Email Email SMS SMS X Facebook
Republish
Reddit LinkedIn Bluesky

The Disaster Economy
  • A look at the growing ‘disaster economy’ turning crisis into cash

    Grist relies on the support of generous readers like you to cover the stories that matter most. Thank you for donating.
    Secure · Tax deductible · Takes 45 Seconds

    Did this article feel meaningful?

    Make others like it possible: Give now in under 45 seconds.
    Secure · Tax deductible · Takes 45 Seconds
    A look at the growing ‘disaster economy’ turning crisis into cash
  • Two years after a wildfire took everything, Maui homeowners are facing a new threat: Foreclosure

    Two years after a wildfire took everything, Maui homeowners are facing a new threat: Foreclosure

To support our nonprofit environmental journalism, please consider disabling your ad-blocker to allow ads on Grist. Here's How


A message from   

Your support keeps our climate news free. All donations DOUBLED!

Grist is the only award-winning newsroom focused on exploring equitable solutions to climate change. It’s vital reporting made entirely possible by loyal readers like you.

At Grist, we don’t believe in paywalls. Instead, we rely on our readers to pitch in what they can so that we can continue bringing you our solution-based climate news. Donate today to keep our site free. All donations DOUBLED for a limited time.

Grist is the only award-winning newsroom focused on exploring equitable solutions to climate change. It’s vital reporting made entirely possible by loyal readers like you.

At Grist, we don’t believe in paywalls. Instead, we rely on our readers to pitch in what they can so that we can continue bringing you our solution-based climate news. Donate today to keep our site free. All donations DOUBLED for a limited time.

Donate Now Not Now

A message from   

Your support keeps our climate news free. All donations DOUBLED!

Grist is the only award-winning newsroom focused on exploring equitable solutions to climate change. It’s vital reporting made entirely possible by loyal readers like you.

At Grist, we don’t believe in paywalls. Instead, we rely on our readers to pitch in what they can so that we can continue bringing you our solution-based climate news. Donate today to keep our site free. All donations DOUBLED for a limited time.

Nikhil Swaminathan
Nikhil Swaminathan
CEO, Grist
DONATE NOW
Not Now
Next Article

1st article block

sarthak Uncategorized

Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one.

Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one.

To support our nonprofit environmental journalism, please consider disabling your ad-blocker to allow ads on Grist. Here's How

Uncategorized

How climate change is intensifying hurricanes

sarthak
  • disaster charts blocks

    Clayton Aldern
  • Test Republish Blank Template

    devansh
  • 22 Predictions

    umesh

Latest

Alaska’s $44 billion bet on natural gas

umesh
  • Our Continuity, Each of Us Raindrops

  • Grist’s word of the year is ‘greenlash’

    umesh
  • The Dark Side of Cheap Clothes

    umesh

Modal Gallery

/

The only newsroom focused on finding solutions at the intersection of climate and justice. Donate today to help keep Grist’s site and newsletters free.

Support Grist

Topics

  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Solutions
  • Accountability
  • Extreme Weather
  • The Grist 50

Company

  • About
  • Team
  • Contact
  • Careers
  • Fellowships
  • Pressroom
  • DEIJ

More

  • Newsletters
  • Visionaries Bureau
  • Events
  • Become a Member
  • Advertising
  • Republish
  • Accessibility

© 1999-2025 Grist Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. Grist is powered by WordPress VIP. Terms of Use | Privacy Policy

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Twitter
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on YouTube
  • Follow us on Bluesky
Share This Video: