Climate change authors must pick up the tab
Re: “California’s former insurance commissioner sees grim future, more wildfires” (April 7).
Your article highlights a growing crisis: disappearing insurance options, soaring premiums, and a future where many Californians may be unable to insure their homes at all.
We’re paying for preventable disasters we didn’t cause. Our homes are burning, and floods and drought are crushing small businesses, while insurers pull out and polluters — who knowingly fueled this crisis — rake in record profits.
To make matters worse, the federal government now threatens to withhold disaster funds.
The climate emergency is a fossil fuel problem, yet it is families, not polluters, who are stuck with the bill.That’s why I join thousands calling on the legislature to pass the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act (SB 684/AB 1243), introduced by state Sen. Caroline Menjivar and Assemblymember Dawn Addis.
Make polluters pay. Our future depends on it.
– Kathryn Grace, 350 Bay Area
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