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Re:Homeowners insurance is pricing people out in disaster-pr... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:13AM (#45198967)
Disaster prone areas are uninsurable due to climate change. This is market signal to not live or build there. Some will be sad, sadness is unavoidable.

Citations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43366311

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450680

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41664750 (top comment of this thread aggressively relevant)

https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-051_f1329bc3-...

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Re:Homeowners insurance is pricing people out in disaster-pr... by nouveaux on Thursday September 11, 2025 @11:59AM (#45213110)
> Some will be sad, sadness is unavoidable.

That's one way of putting it. The other way of putting it is that the affected are bearing the cost of climate change imposed on them by the rest of society, who are benefiting.

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Re:Homeowners insurance is pricing people out in disaster-pr... by JackYoustra on Friday September 12, 2025 @06:43PM (#45227621)
Ah yes, the climate concerned citizens of Florida. It so happens that they don't seem particularly concerned as far as macro solutions are concerned.
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