It doesn’t need to kill them to completely disrupt social order. There’s an estimate out there that there will be up to 1 billion climate refugees by 2050. The Global North already does not handle refugees as well, even though they consistently cause a large amount of the refugee problems.

Absolutely agree. Connect has come a long way since I left reddit when RIF died.

And California. There’s a few reasons why a company as big as State Farm (the largest home insurer in the state) stopped writing new home policies there, largely the natural disaster risk.

https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/05/state-farm-california-insurance/

Skyrocketing insurance is already on the way. Places that don’t outright lose access to insurers will continue to see massive increases over the next decade. US Insurers will all be following suit soon. Property insurance got killed last year and is already getting hit hard this year.

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2023/07/20/731434.htm

I love those books. Good to know I won’t have to watch the show.