Should communities hit over and over again by natural disasters — like hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, and tornadoes — keep rebuilding? Or should they retreat from areas that are especially disaster-prone? It’s a question that will become only more urgent as climate change continues to fuel extreme weather. And it is especially resonant here in New Orleans, which has suffered untold extreme weather events in its 300-year history. The most damaging, of course, was 13 years ago, when the winds and rains of Hurricane Katrina breached the city’s flawed hurricane defenses. It could apply to San Juan, P.R., still struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria; to towns in California virtually erased […]