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    6 months ago

    Ahh yes, the massive driver of climate change… insurance policies.

    Insurance companies often force positive change long before regulators or lawmakers get off their asses.

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      6 months ago

      Insurance companies could refuse to insure drilling projects, pipelines or oil ships and stop the oil industry in a whimp. Isn’t going to happen because oil companies can join forces and create a new insurance company and insure themselves.

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        I didn’t mean to imply they were doing it out of some moral motivation. When economic incentives line up right is when they push positive change.