Paying the price of climate change: Louisiana’s insurance crisis • FRANCE 24 English
Since the storms of 2020 and 2021, many insurance companies have left the US state of Louisiana or gone bankrupt. Those that remain have increased their rates five-fold in some cases. The poorest homeowners are now unable to pay the insurance needed for their mortgage. This critical situation is a direct result of climate change. FRANCE 24’s Fanny Allard reports.
Read more about this story in our article: https://f24.my/AiZh.y
🔔 Subscribe to France 24 now: https://f24.my/YTen
🔴 LIVE – Watch FRANCE 24 English 24/7 here: https://f24.my/YTliveEN
🌍 Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https://www.france24.com/en/
Like us on Facebook: https://f24.my/FBen
Follow us on X (Twitter): https://f24.my/Xen
Browse the news in pictures on Instagram: https://f24.my/IGen
Discover our TikTok videos: https://f24.my/TKen
Get the latest top stories on Telegram: https://f24.my/TGen
20 comments
It’s government policies not climate change. Houses didn’t used to be this expensive to build
Thank you Jesus 🙏
It's a self-inflicted injury. LOL. They could live in hurricane-proof, tornado-proof McAllen, Texas, but they don't want to.
I just don't understand why they keep building these wooden shacks
Remember the old sayin-“hurricanes and tornadoes are circles and we build squares”.
You mean a swamp on the edge of a hurricanehighway has problems with flooding?!😮
En français SVP
Call Trump
Agenda 2030 wants you to be like a 3 rd world country. They use weather weapons to destroy the insurance ,which they OWN TOO.
Living on the coast and a lot of times below sea level is a risk… in the long-term people have to decide if it's worth it
Feel for Kevin… can't be easy to say g-bye to your home 🙁
Texas is next.
In countries around the world, insurance is getting more expensive because of the damage caused by weather weirding. This is climate change, and the US is the highest emitter of CO2.
Keep driving big gas guzzling pickups and SUV's…..🤔
Katrina gave us a great chance to remove the most expensive part of dealing with climate change by vacating the area. Instead, we rebuilt. SMH.
This is about to get much much worse with cadet bone spurs in charge.
Don't worry, Trump and Musk will make billions on your loses😊 you really are the dumbest nation on the planet😅
😂😂😂 stop building in
The swamp waters and
Telling people it climate change it the wetlands
Just like Florida..😂
I stubbed my toe this morning on a chair; Stinking climate change!!
There has been a 10% decline in natural disasters since 2000 (CRED). Normalised disaster losses have decreased since 1990 and human mortality due to extreme weather has decreased by more than 95% since 1920, so you're 50 times less likely to die from a climate-related disaster in a world that's 1°C warmer than 100 years ago (EM-DAT, CRED/UC). Deaths from drought have declined by 99%!
As an example of good news, Climate Change saved 555,103 lives in England and Wales between 2001 and 2020 (ONS, 2022).
Comments are closed.