Mine was not a well-thought-out and prepared post, just an off-the-cuff comment that expressed my knee-jerk reaction.
To help break it down into its components:
I do not blame those insurance companies
I do blame the government for outright lying to people for literally decades that this is even happening
regardless of who caused it, this is one more notch edging us further along the late-stage capitalism spectrum
I worry that America is undergoing a long-term genocidal campaign of its own
A relevant article is https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/12/trump-second-term-climate-science-2024-00132289, explaining how Trump believes that he was soft on the climate change issue before and now promises to go to war against “climate change”. Oh wait no, my bad, the actual sentence is against “climate change scientists”. He reiterates that it is fake, that it is caused by liberals (wait but didn’t you just say that it was…?) with their “wind farms”, and that one of the chief reasons that he even wants to become dictator for a day is so that he could then “drill, drill, drill”. And since he is currently winning against his primary challengers, this is not merely some voice in the wilderness somewhere, but an actual forerunner of things yet to come, when people refuse to vote for Biden b/c of supporting Israel or b/c of the Hunter situation or whatever reason.
Insurance companies are simply reacting to the changes, but there are forces that are driving some of the things that we are seeing happening, in that even if a large portion of it is out of their control, they at least manage our response to those.
Indeed, other nations - actual first-world ones - are doing things to combat the changes that are occurring globally, rather than doubling down on the side of attempting to care yet still less than we already do.
Edit: and btw thank you 1000% percent for politely and respectfully asking what it was that I meant, rather than jumping full-bore to the most extreme and insane possibility that you could manage to think of and then use that strawman as a justification to attempt to ridicule me. I know that seems like a bare minimum to the likes of you and I, but in social media it sadly is of the most extreme rarity - like if this were a game’s loot drop, then such a question would be beyond “uncommon”, beyond even “rare”, and outright “legendary”:-).
Mine was not a well-thought-out and prepared post, just an off-the-cuff comment that expressed my knee-jerk reaction.
To help break it down into its components:
A relevant article is https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/12/trump-second-term-climate-science-2024-00132289, explaining how Trump believes that he was soft on the climate change issue before and now promises to go to war against “climate change”. Oh wait no, my bad, the actual sentence is against “climate change scientists”. He reiterates that it is fake, that it is caused by liberals (wait but didn’t you just say that it was…?) with their “wind farms”, and that one of the chief reasons that he even wants to become dictator for a day is so that he could then “drill, drill, drill”. And since he is currently winning against his primary challengers, this is not merely some voice in the wilderness somewhere, but an actual forerunner of things yet to come, when people refuse to vote for Biden b/c of supporting Israel or b/c of the Hunter situation or whatever reason.
Insurance companies are simply reacting to the changes, but there are forces that are driving some of the things that we are seeing happening, in that even if a large portion of it is out of their control, they at least manage our response to those.
Indeed, other nations - actual first-world ones - are doing things to combat the changes that are occurring globally, rather than doubling down on the side of attempting to care yet still less than we already do.
Edit: and btw thank you 1000% percent for politely and respectfully asking what it was that I meant, rather than jumping full-bore to the most extreme and insane possibility that you could manage to think of and then use that strawman as a justification to attempt to ridicule me. I know that seems like a bare minimum to the likes of you and I, but in social media it sadly is of the most extreme rarity - like if this were a game’s loot drop, then such a question would be beyond “uncommon”, beyond even “rare”, and outright “legendary”:-).