Oh Gov. DeSantis? While you are conducting a “war on woke” your state has a serious problem:
In places like California, Louisiana and Florida, insurers are balking at covering problems made worse by the climate crisis.
The problem got worse for the Sunshine State this week, as Farmers Insurance Group served notice it would no longer be in the business of home, auto or umbrella coverage there, per the Orlando Sentinel’s Jeffrey Schweers. This affects 100,000 Florida homeowners.
Ten other companies had already left “in the midst of the state’s relentless insurance crisis, which has caused premiums to skyrocket by 100% or more in some cases. Property owners are bracing for a 40% increase this year,” Schweers reported.
California, at least, is doing everything it can to deal with climate change. Florida politicians insist that it isn’t happening even as their water temperatures are soaring to unprecedented hot tub-like temperatures!
The truth is that governors like DeSantis don’t have any answers because they are complicit in convincing their deluded voters that climate change is a woke hoax and no big deal. So he’s ignoring it. But at some point reality is going to bite and with the treatment of its employers, the brain drain, the pushing out of immigrant labor in the agriculture and construction industries, this is going to affect the economic health of the state. (It’s social health is already terminal…)
Maybe the voters in Florida are fine with that. They can blame Hillary or something. But with all the GOP star power in that state you’d think at some point the chickens would come home to roost and notice that things are changing for the worse and nobody cares to do anything about it.