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A bit of battlefield preparation for the coming massive insurance rate increase for eastern coastal cities? perhaps.

Coming? It’s already started (FL and GA).

Insurers are abandoning California, due to increased wildfire risks, also linked to climate change.

Every failure of government is now conveniently "linked to climate change".

This is not "failure of government," it is competing (even reasonably good-faith) interests, which are today in unanticipated opposition as a result of (wait for it) climate change.

No climate change? No problem.

Since that's not going anywhere, something has to give. A renegotiation of the distribution of previously externalized costs between insurers, government, and society is inevitable.

For decades, fire management policy (state and federal) in California has been to suppress all fires. Naturally, fuel built up and the resulting fires became harder to control, until they were no longer able to control them.

That's a failure of government.

And climate change is making it worse. It isn't just the government's fault.

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