'Risks aren't worth it': QBE says parts of planet becoming uninsurable due to climate concerns, page-29

Yes of course it has something to do with increasing population... why do you think we on earth have increased our greenhouse gas emissions equally as dramatically over the same time frame. Yes they are inter-linked.

But what are you going to suggest we do about increased population? Nuke a few countries that you don't like? Starve a few nations to death? Wipe out a continent by withdrawing medical advances which have enabled population growth to be so high?

You can't remove people - but that isn't what's actually causing the problem - it greenhouse gas emissions. So in order to reduce the rate of global warming we need to reduce our GHG emissions. If we can get GHGs down to 1975 levels by 2050 that will have a consequence. the effects of AGW won't be as severe as if we do nothing.

And then insurance premiums, which are expected to continue to rise with increased extreme climatic events, such as our own Indian Ocean Dipole driven bushfires, will be less of a problem.

Scott.