Fringey Mini: House of a Thousand Toothpicks

Podcast: Journey to the Fringe · Journey to the Fringe

Opublikowano: 2026-10-14

In this Fringey Mini, we're diging into a new spin on rich people's EMOceans in an NPR piece about North Carolina’s stilt houses literally giving up and dropping into the Atlantic. Thanks to FEMA’s backwards insurance rules, homeowners are financially rewarded for letting their doomed beach houses collapse instead of removing them safely — leaving behind mountains of debris, polluted beaches, and a whole lot of rich‑people denial. It’s climate change, bad policy, and wooden toothpick stilts all coming together in an absolutley mind numbing disaster. https://www.npr.org/2026/09/17/nx-s1-5844642/fema-homes...