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Seems like having the ocean at your door would be bad for the structure? Or burning down in a hot dry period…
by CalRobert 2y ago
Seems like having the ocean at your door would be bad for the structure? Or burning down in a hot dry period…
- adrianN 2y agoWhy would a city like London or Paris burn down in a hot dry period?
- snacksmcgee 2y agoYou're refuting a lot of established facts about the risks of climate change, in a way that seems indicative of a certain ideology. Can you explain more what your position is?
- adrianN 2y agoMy position is that climate change is an existential threat to civilization, but buildings are not at a risk that would make them uninsurable. We build cities both in very wet and very hot and dry climates without much trouble. Those are engineering problems we can solve without much trouble.
- llamaimperative 2y agoBut with lots more money, which is what insurance deals with Of course they’re insurable at some premium. The question is whether there is any premium someone is willing to pay that can also cover the risk.
- notabee 2y agoIt's also a social coordination problem. For example a neighborhood where all the homes have to be fire resistant is going to fare a lot better, and probably be cheaper for the individual home owners to build and insure, than the one fire-resistant home in a neighborhood of tinder boxes. I don't think the prognosis is good for the U.S. in that regard. We have very little social cohesion and a lot of parties interested in making the situation worse for their own benefit.
- arrowsmith 2y ago1666 has entered the chat.
- mr_toad 2y agoLondon is at much more risk of flooding. Parts of London were built on wetlands not much above sea level, and there’s a big river running right through the middle.