• @deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    91 year ago

    … meanwhile we’re compensating people who built $10m houses on cliff tops, who then cut down the trees securing the cliff edge, and are now finding out that cliffs erode, and their houses are failing into the sea.

    … we’re exempting farmers from paying the actual costs of their carbon emissions while they pollute or water ways with reckless abandon. It’s only the poor fuckers down stream who’ll get sick and die.

    … While we still argue if old and sick people should die of COVID so that fashion shops can still hock their tat manufactured halfway around the world and shipped here on ships that burn the shittiest fuel available.

    I have had kids, and lament the world I’m giving to them.

    • @solstice@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      At least with the house on the cliff example it’s the insurance companies paying for it though right? Hopefully their premiums were priced appropriately and the insurer doesn’t raise everyone else’s rates to cover their folly. I’ve no doubt they would if that’s the case, but I presume their actuaries did a decent job computing that risk so who knows.

      • @deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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        11 year ago

        I’m fairly sure, but have no evidence, that the argument is “the council approved these plans therefore it’s the council’s fault my house is falling off the cliff”. Floating over the fact that the council approved a plan where there was 50m of vegetation securing the cliff edge… All of which has mysteriously disappeared over the last 15 years.

        Also apparently caveat emptor is only for poor people.

        • @solstice@lemmy.world
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          21 year ago

          What council? Wouldn’t their insurance be on the hook then? Eventually somewhere an insurer has written a policy for that $10m cliff side house. Per my previous point, hopefully their actuaries accurately priced the risk.

          • @deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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            11 year ago

            Sorry. I lapsed into some specifics of my locale. Didn’t realise I was in world news.

            We have city councils. They are responsible for approving building plan/permits. They tend to be either unless pedantic or grossly negligent.

            There’s been a trend here to blame that council for when a property becomes uninhabitable. E.g. by a cliff face eroding over time, accelerated by actions of the property owner.