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LETTER: Ignoring climate change is not a solution

Park Rapids Enterprise · last updated

Don’t believe in climate change? Insurance companies do. Even here in northern Minnesota, our insurance rates are increasing much faster than the inflation rate.

Our home insurance in the last six years has increased over 60% without any claims being made.

In areas of Florida, California and Louisiana, you can’t get insurance on your home or afford insurance if it is available.

If you cannot get insurance, banks and other lenders will not loan you money for buying a house or starting a business.

This is not an issue we can keep putting off. We need to put policies in place that make the transition to renewable energy a top priority. Burning fossil fuels is the problem and ignoring the problem is not a solution.

The current administration, for some reason, does not believe in science and appears to actively resist the change to renewables.

The large outbreak of tornadoes and 1,000-year flooding that happened this week is an example of what a warming climate has in store for us if we don’t break our addiction to fossil fuels.

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