Honduran officials are considering a logging moratorium. Even insurance companies are considered about the trend in catastrophe losses, both insured and uninsured. Gerhard Berz of Munich Re, a leading reinsurance company in Germany, says the climate changes will yield larger catastrophic losses and cause some areas to be totally uninsurable. A U.N. spokesman is even gloomier. So catastrophes will make areas uninsurable, make some areas disappear altogether, and will certainly drive up the cost of homeowners and other property insurance and drive down its availability.
Air pollution continues to be out of control especially in developing countries.
The wash of nutrients from land continues to increase harmful algae blooming worldwide. Most algae is beneficial but environmental abuses increase the 60 to 80 species that contain biotoxins and poison marine species and even people. What's more, once these harmful algae get established, they are hard to contain.