Personal Cost of Climate Change

How Much Will Climate Change Hurt Your Finances

HOW MUCH Climate Change Will Hurt Your Finances – Part 4: Insurance

Insurance is a bellwether for risk, and that’s perfectly by design.  I am focusing on property insurance for this article since the next article in the series will discuss health, and I will include health insurance as part of that analysis. Insurance is an entire industry that uses history, hard data, and complex predictive algorithms […]

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How Much Will Climate Change Hurt My Finances

HOW MUCH Climate Change Will Hurt Your Finances – Part 3: Transportation

Transportation is the economy’s lifeblood.  All things human, animal, and inanimate travel from place to place, usually repeatedly throughout their lives.  Workers travel daily to their offices, and tourists travel around the world. Vehicle parts cross international borders back and forth, and raw materials are trucked down the street or shipped across the globe. Every

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How Does Climate Change Affect Finances

HOW MUCH Climate Change Will Hurt Your Finances – Part 2: Food

It’s hard to overstate climate change’s impact on global food production; unfortunately, the issues are compounding.   The food system is hyper-complex and relies on interdependent systems, nearly all susceptible to climate change. Food supply was already under threat from decades of unsustainable farming and fishing practices, population growth, the maldistribution of food, weather, war, biodiversity

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How Does Climate Change Affect Finances

HOW MUCH Climate Change will hurt your finances – Part 1: Housing

Climate change is going to be expensive.  Because the cost of climate change is a complex subject, I have broken it into six parts and will post them over a few weeks. If the other parts aren’t available, check back later for the rest!  The total costs of climate change globally are hard to estimate,

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