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NNadir

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8. Since we are doing nothing at all about extreme global heating...

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu Apr 3, 2025, 10:52 AM

Apr 3

...where "something" would involve risk analysis and acting on the results, say, comparing the collapse of the planetary atmosphere with, say for example, Chernobyl, the insurance industry will not survive.

Of course one of the fun things practiced by antinukes is whining about the Price Anderson act, related to insurance on nuclear plants.

Apparently it has proved impossible to insure the planetary atmosphere against fossil fuel damage from normal operations.

Oh well, then...

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Allianz Spells It Out: Climate Collapse Will Destroy Insurance Industry, After Which Finance & Capitalism Will Collapse [View all] hatrack Apr 3 OP

Insurance companies cannot lose money and function. cachukis Apr 3 #1

Even more to the point, reinsurance companies (like Allianz) cannot lose money and function . . . . hatrack Apr 3 #3

Persactly. cachukis Apr 3 #4

Most memorable post in years bucolic_frolic Apr 3 #2

While the Politicians fight with the Climate Scientists... genxlib Apr 3 #5

Al Gore laid some of this out in FalloutShelter Apr 3 #6

Capitalism brings down itself, just as predicted al bupp Apr 3 #7

Since we are doing nothing at all about extreme global heating... NNadir Apr 3 #8

It's also happening in FL. Insurance is getting more scarce and expensive every year, almost unaffordable NOW. lark Apr 3 #9