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U.S. rocked by four 1-in-1,000-year storms in less than a week
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Uh yeah, actuaries have already determined the world GDP will be catastrophically damaged, forever, if we don't limit warming to 2C.
https://actuaries.org.uk/document-library/thought-leadership/thought-leadership-campaigns/climate-papers/planetary-solvency-finding-our-balance-with-nature/
We already blew past 1.5C, if you didn't know... and also, the trend in the last decade is continuously that the climate is breaking harder and faster than the scientific consensus broadly projects... so its probably gonna be actually worse than this.
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US insurance companies have already figured out that roughly the bottom 1/3 of the US will be uninsurable in 10 years... which is why they're either massively upping insurance rates, or largely pulling out of the home insurance business in CA, FL, other southern US states and regions, which is causing all these states to bankrupt themselves as they try to offer a public/government version of home insurance, but refuse to tax people appropriately or fairly to be able to actuslly fund such an endeavor.
Generally, you can't get a home mortgage without insurance, you can't own and rent a place out if you don't have property insurance.
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/homeowners-insurance-crisis-hitting-these-15-states-report-says-101524.html
https://theconversation.com/why-insurance-companies-are-pulling-out-of-california-and-florida-and-how-to-fix-some-of-the-underlying-problems-207172
https://abc13.com/post/farmers-insurance-companies-leaving-states-aaa-what-are-high-climate-risk/13518796/
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tl;dr: You have no idea how fucked we all are.
florida is pretty much a given, building in flood prone areas is just asking for it.
I remember when 1.5C was the threshold instead of 2. We're already living in yesterday's doomsday scenario.
it's okay the trump fascists will dismantle NOAA and then we won't know any of this anymore :3
So, Canada, then?
I am unironically moving to Minnesota ASAP.
Cheapest to live in decently blue state, all the climate risk assesments I've seen seem to show that, as long as you're not living right on the Mississippi, pretty low comparative climate risks... oh, and their housing market (thus economy generally) is fairly stable, compared to about half of the rest of the country, whose housing market is currently crashing harder than the 06-08 GFC.
Canada isn't a bad option at all, but its actually fairly difficult to legally migrate there.
Its gonna be really, really funny when the Canadians start deporting waves of poor Americans fleeing northward, in about 5 to 10 years.
...ye gads, just imagine how bad the mosquito clouds are going to get...