Comments on: ‘A Riskier Place to Live’: Canada Could Be Uninsurable in a Decade, Says Expert https://www.theenergymix.com/a-riskier-place-to-live-canada-could-be-uninsurable-in-a-decade-says-expert/ The climate news that makes a difference. Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:01:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: ingamarie https://www.theenergymix.com/a-riskier-place-to-live-canada-could-be-uninsurable-in-a-decade-says-expert/#comment-25058 Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:08:27 +0000 https://www.theenergymix.com/?p=150483#comment-25058 We need to get pro active around issues of climate adaptation, mitigation and transition off fossil fuels, and we need to do it yesterday.
Instead, the States have elected a climate denying drill baby drill president who intends to do all he can to suppress the reality we’re facing and pretend that military power and strong arm tactics will convince Nature to give us all a pass.

It isn’t going to happen. As the wonderful intellectual singer, Laurie Anderson put it so succinctly over a quarter century ago:
NATURE HAS RULES AND NATURE HAS LAWS AND CROSS HER……….AND ITS THE MONKEY’S PAW.

Or as that late great comedian George Carlin said: ‘We’re circling the drain’.

]]> By: Tom Livingston https://www.theenergymix.com/a-riskier-place-to-live-canada-could-be-uninsurable-in-a-decade-says-expert/#comment-25043 Wed, 22 Jan 2025 03:46:02 +0000 https://www.theenergymix.com/?p=150483#comment-25043 I am a Canadian Structural engineer and Passive Solar designerr living in Nova Scotia. I have been studying, writing, and giving talks about climate change since at least the third IPCC. In November, 2002, two colleagues (professor Spooner of Geology and professor Johannesen, of Environmental Studies) and I sat on a public discussion panel with the then-Minister of the Environment & Labour David Morse. The presentations by the three of us were far-ranging, from the future unavailability of disaster insurance to sea level rise, to how efficiently designed buildings can drastically reduce the use of fossil fuel. The Hon. David Morse did not have anything substantive to contribute, other than offering some well-worn platitudes. One of my colleagues on the panel stated, “Insurance companies estimate worldwide costs of climate change caused by human activities could reach US$302.4 billion annually by 2050.” Without action, we concluded that the future was bleak. Professor Johannessen stated: “If you think mitigated climate change is expensive, try unmitigated climate change.” And now, almost only a quarter century later, humanity has brought us beyond the brink.

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