Environment News – What’s Happening With Insurance Against Wildfires | What’s Next This Year?
Some bite-sized pieces of news from the environment this week.
8 January, 2020
News snippets
Dreadful wildfires have meant Australians have lost homes, land, and loved ones. Climate-denying Prime Minister Scott Morrison was told “You’re an idiot, mate” when posing for a photo op on his return from a nice vacation in Hawaii.
It’s the first major climate catastrophe of this new decade. What else will we see?
Just imagine – you live in California. You’ve paid your insurance premiums for years, never missed a payment, and never claimed. Then a wildfire destroys your home. Of course you turn to your reliable insurance company. And they dump you. Why? Because insurance companies totally under-estimated the costs of climate change disasters, and it’s costing them. Now, California has banned the practice of dropping customers, for one year.
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Amazon has threatened to fire employees for speaking publicly about the company’s role in the climate crisis. “I’m terrified by the harm the climate crisis is already causing. Any policy that says I can’t talk about something that is a threat to my children — all children — is a problem for me” said one employee, Maren Costa. She had called for Amazon to do more to tackle the climate crisis.
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