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Other Words: Big Insurance Companies Are Fleecing Disaster Survivors — and the Rest of Us
Other Words (7/30/25 ([link removed]) )
This week on CounterSpin: Climate disruption and its predicted, measurable, life-altering impacts provides a clear example of an instance where countries and industries and science could come together: Here’s this problem that’s facing literally all of us. How do we cut it off at the source, and mitigate its obviously unequal fallout? “We have the technology.”
But the people using jets to ferry them from one state to another are not the same people who can’t escape the heat in treeless communities. The CEOs of fossil fuel companies can move home any time they want; they don’t have to care that communities are newly exposed to droughts or floods or storms. Climate change, according to elites, is a "sucks to be you" sort of problem. So much so that they can spend time ginning up arguments ([link removed]) about how it isn’t even happening, so as to get more money out of the money machine while they can. And for the kicker, corporate media will recite those arguments and hold them up alongside science and humanity, as though we can and should choose what to believe as it suits us.
One obvious stress point of this institutional dystopia is insurance. You buy insurance in case something bad happens—like a fire, or a flood. But if that fire or flood is driven by climate disruption? Well, wait a minute. Turns out you’re no longer covered. And the fact that your insurance company is deeply invested ([link removed]) in the fossil fuel companies that are driving the disaster? Well, that is neither here nor there.
We need journalism that would help us connect those obvious dots and act on what we learn. We’ll talk about that today with Cathy Cowan Becker, responsible finance campaigns director at the group Green America ([link removed]) .
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Beacon Broadside: Boston Globe Workers Protest for Delivery of Labor Rights
Beacon Broadside (1/13/16 ([link removed]) )
Also on the show: As we go into Labor Day weekend, we’ll revisit a conversation we had about the simple power of including worker voices in reporting—and, maybe more so, the power of silencing them. In 2016, the Boston Globe brought a story to its own doorstep with the decision ([link removed]) to contract out its subscriber delivery service. We heard about it from Aviva Chomsky, history professor and coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University, and author of, among other titles, Undocumented: ([link removed]) How Immigration Became Illegal. We’ll hear part of that conversation ([link removed]) this week.
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