Say your prayers: California’s new plan to ease the insurance crisis is going to need them.

California’s FAIR insurance plan has only about $385 million to pay for disasters. A new proposal could add millions of enrollees and billions in risk

if local governments didn’t insist on making it so difficult to build infill housing in comparatively safe places like San Francisco, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

#TurningABillionDollarProblemIntoATrillionDollarProblem 
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/california-insurance-crisis-fair-plan-19609809.php

Re-evacuated #ClimateRefugees: Some of the residents impacted by the Paradise fire ended up relocating to Oroville.

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/03/us/thompson-fire-california-heat-wave/index.html

#bidenomics: farmers' economic pain is spreading from the fields to Main Street. The situation in U.S. prairie states is particularly severe. Farmers here are facing the worst economic situation in over a decade, and small cities are at risk of becoming ghost towns, sources told Reuters.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/p/can-biden-be-helped-who-gained-from?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Out of 30 million fires across the world over two decades, the researchers identified the 2,913 most extreme fire events and found that the frequency and intensity of such wildfires has more than doubled since 2003.
"Climate change is making fire weather more extreme and more frequent in a lot of the world."
The problem is rapidly getting worse, the team found: The six years with the most extreme wildfires had all occurred since 2017.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-change-wildfires

Early fire season a harbinger of Democrats satisfied with maladaptation and sequestration: High winds are leading to the quick growth of the fire

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https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/06/01/evacuation-order-for-tracy-as-corral-fire-spreads-to-4900-acres/

Will Fort McMurray tire of starting firenadoes?

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https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2072740/evacuation-order-issued-as-wildfire-threatening-fort-mcmurray-draws-closer

More tariffs on solar panels and batteries: Canada is fighting 138 active wildfires with dozens that are characterized as “out of control,” according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. The wildfires spread over the past week. Most of the fires are in British Columbia and Alberta. The fires are affecting the air quality of Kansas, Missouri and Iowa.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/05/14/us-canadian-wildfire-smoke-map-2024/73686016007/

Utilities, who see fossil fuels expansion as the solution to transmission congestion, instead of efficiency and demand response which need guaranteed rate of return, virtual power plants and reconducting, ran up transmission fires instead: The fire’s size—1 million acres—was unprecedented in Texas. It was eight times bigger than California’s 2018 Camp Fire, the most destructive in that state’s history.

The Camp Fire was caused by faulty transmission lines owned by Pacific Gas & Electric. (The utility filed for bankruptcy protection the following year.) Already, Xcel Energy, a Minneapolis-based electric utility and natural gas delivery company, has told state fire investigators that its equipment apparently started the Smokehouse Creek blaze.

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https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-panhandle-fire-climate-environment/

#Ramaytush: Indigenous people have lived on the San Francisco peninsula for more than 13,000 years. In San Francisco, the Ramaytush Ohlone lived in several villages, including one near the present-day mission site, called Chutchui, on the banks of a waterway they named Ehwate.
The Franciscans forced indigenous residents into labor. The mission church and other structures, including barns and barracks, were constructed by indigenous hands; not just Ohlone, but also Pomo, Miwok, Patwin and Wappo people from the wider Bay Area. 
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https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/mission-dolores-curator-aims-to-humanize-sites-indigenous-dead/

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As home insurers flee California, the state’s last-resort insurance plan is warning that it’s being pushed toward insolvency, forced to cover a rapidly growing number of properties that have lost traditional coverage and unable to collect enough in premiums to cover potential losses.
The number of homes and commercial properties in high-risk wildfire areas covered by the California FAIR Plan has more than doubled, from 154,000 in 2019 to 375,000, and liability exposure has ballooned from $50 billion in 2018 to $336 billion in February, its president told lawmakers at an insurance committee hearing last week.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/23/california-home-insurance-exodus-pushes-states-last-resort-backup-plan-toward-insolvency/

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