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Is the world becoming uninsurable?

(charleshughsmith.substack.com)
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1. notatoad ◴[] No.42739756[source]
Insurance is America’s best method of pricing externalities. If America is becoming uninsurable, maybe they should look into other methods of addressing or minimizing those externalities.

Like requiring buildings be built to a standard where they can survive normal weather events, not building in disaster prone areas, not building in sprawling huge developments that eat up a ton of natural space and create a huge urban woodland interface, and trying to slow the pace of climate change by not dumping so much co2 into the atmosphere.