GirlpartsAAA pulls back from offering insurance in Florida, following Farmers
More insurance companies are fleeing the state because of the growing threat from natural disasters. #news
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aaa-insurance-florida-crisis-farmers/
originaluciferhopefully this is the monetary incentive required not to build in stupid places with lax regulations ... but i doubt it.
AnomandarisThat's fine, but what happens when this expands with the the increasing effects of climate change? What happens when Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas health insurance costs triple because of the risks of extreme heat? What about New Orleans or locations prone to extreme storms or hurricanes?
Huge patches of countries all over the world are soon to become uninsurable because climate change makes it too dangerous to live there.
masterspaceYup. People gonna have to move.
Remember when people said that climate change would cost us trillions of dollars? This is why.
We're really gonna need to colonize another planet eventually.
JaysynIt'd be easier & cheaper to fix this one.
We're going to have to break a few eggs though, since we waited so long.
By eggs I mean multinational corporations.
Some scientists theorize we've already passed the red line. The rest is just crowd control. Those eggs are gonna be broken but they're probably gonna be a few billion people. Best to plan for the worst, hope for the best and doing both climate science and technical advances towards colonization.
It's not like the research and funding needs to go to one or the other. Never understood that argument, like what 10,000s of astrophysicists and engineers are just gonna be like "yeah let's all stop or research today to save humanity" lmao.
Colonizing other planets is not a solution. It is vastly harder to terraform Mars than to repair the damage we’ve done to Earth. Multiple technological Holy Grails must be discovered in order to make it even remotely possible. Not happening.
A colony established on Mars with current technology would be completely dependent on Earth for food and other supplies.
If we’ve passed the red line already, then it’s all over and we may as well live it up while we still can.
I didn't say terraform.
Then why bring up other planets? Even if the worst global-warming predictions come true, Earth will still be vastly more hospitable than an unterraformed Mars, and all of the other planetoids we can reach in a single human lifetime are even less fit for human habitation.
Until and unless somebody invents either the warp drive or the means to terraform Mars, we’ve only got one planet to work with. If we trash it, that’s it—game over for humanity.
Because subterranean habitats on the closest to 1G planet could very well could become more habitable than earth in the future.
Regardless what we do, we will max out this planet eventually. There isn't really anything to stop it. May as well do both in tandem, which is what is happening.
Move how? They can’t sell their houses because their houses are gone and no longer covered by insurance. People can’t pay two mortgages.
Those people are all going to be homeless.