INFORMATION FOR SENIORS

Climate Issues: Information for Seniors

Think you know everything about how plastics are destroying the world? Read here ​​

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Pollution is a climate issue, and, as with most woes, affects people unequally, also in the UK. The Climate Finance Fund (Fossil Fuels and Pollution) Bill, is being tabled by MP Richard Burgon, although it stands few chances of becoming law at present. But it should heat up the public debate. Some local groups are campaigning against Howden - one of the largest insurers of Oil and Gas companies, a cosy-looking insurance company that can be found in many more than 130 UK High Streets.

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Effects of air pollution (and, more positively, green spaces) on children's developing minds. 30-minute Youtube clip here: ​

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​Insurance is a climate change issue and an issue for future generations. It's a double issue. More and more people in the UK are living on potential flood plains. Who is going to insure their houses? Californians are already discovering that they are uninsurable following recent fires.

You may want to check the possibility of finding a more ethical insurer yourself. Here is a brief guide from The Ethical Consumer:

Even the re-insurers, the companies that insure the insurance companies are getting worried:

https://coveringclimatenow.org/event/press-briefing-is-insurance-the-next-big-climate-story/

And there's more: From time to time there are street protests across the UK (as in Bristol, see picture below) against the insurance companies that are themselves investing heavily in fossil-fuels.