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Louisiana’s ‘business-friendly’ climate response: canceled home insurance plans (floodlightnews.org)
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[–] blaine@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

This is good news, right? The only way we can force wealthy, waterfront homeowners to move back from the coasts that are going to be increasingly hit by hurricanes is to stop insuring their idiotic behavior. This is a necessary adaptation to the climate crisis in a place where the reality of the issue seems to have overcome the partisan divide.

Seems like this would be a policy democrats and progressives would be cheering for, no?

[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Or we just let them build their castle in a bog

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

That one sank into the swamp

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

After a few iterations they’ll have a stable base.

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