Your regular reminder that unless we bill the folks that lied about the dangers/costs of #ClimateChange#ClimateDisasters#SueBigOil#Helenewww.inc.com/reuters/hurr...

Hurricane Helene Damage to Cost Between $95 and $110 Billion

Before hitting Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas, Helene landed over Florida as a Category 4 hurricane.

That puts her in the top 10 costliest hurricanes ever

huh. That's more than the oil industry's yearly profits. Guess it's time to rethink things and ask if they're actually adding anything to our economy. markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodi...

The US oil boom helps ExxonMobil and Chevron notch their second-biggest profits in a decade

ExxonMobil and Chevron notched $36 billion and $21.4 billion for their fourth-quarter profits respectively, boosted by surging US oil production.

Seems like these folks should file a class action lawsuit against the oil companies

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Not sure public money is going to pay either, given ideological conditions in USA. The likely outcome is "nobody pays," specifically not insurers, and life gets sharply worse for everybody but the rich.

You break it, you bought it.