We cats are big fans of Hawaii Democratic Senator Brian Schatz (and actually, of Hawaii's other Democratic Senator, too). Senator Schatz puts climate change at the top of his keeps-me-awake-at-night list, and no wonder. Not only does he have young children, but if the oceans rise from warming, his state is in deep — well, you know.
Lately, Senator Schatz has been highlighting the fact that it's starting to dawn on business interests around the world that global warming is a problem. For example:
"In 2019, climate change was named the number-one risk to North American insurers, edging out cyber risk for the first time in five years, as ranked by professional actuaries."
"The central bank of the Netherlands said in 2017 that 'Financial institutions must increasingly factor in the consequences of a changing climate.'"
"The Reserve Bank of New Zealand said in November 2018 that the 'physical impacts of climate change will pose risks through damage to property, changing property values and disruptions to supply chains.'"
"At the World Economic Forum this year, experts named climate change as the top economic and social risk facing the world. 'Of all risks, it is in relation to the environment that the world is most clearly sleepwalking into catastrophe.'"
We think this is a brilliant way to get people — who are for the most part idiots, as we know — to notice. Nobody cares about plant and animal life, but tell them that climate change is going to cost them money, and their hair will catch fire.
Which, coincidentally, is what the planet is doing right now. We cats HISS at the carbon-boosters, and PURR at Senator Schatz and all the young people who are going to save us from ourselves. We hope.
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