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Extreme Weather Is Sending Home Insurance Rates Through the Roof; Big Oil Should Pay (www.commondreams.org)
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We and a growing number of lawmakers are proposing legislation to ensure that the companies that helped drive the climate crisis help pay their fair share of the ensuing damage.

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[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

It's hard to make someone pay after the fact.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Usually people cannot be prosecuted of things that were not crimes when they commited the thing.

[–] desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

And in that case, only the lawyers win. Remember there was a will that was battled for 190 years, iirc, in England and when it was settled, there wasn't anything left for the claimants.