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insuring the house

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Ethical insurance I required house insurance and decided I wanted to find an ethical supplier, I had never previously heard of any ethical insurers except for bicycle insurance companies, but; I knew for certain! that many of my previous insurers were just affiliations of one of the big banks, they would therefore be non-ethical, being an environmentalist, I no longer wanted to be part of these planet killers Due to climate change, there has been a dramatic worldwide increase in So-called natural disasters, this has required insurers to make huge pay-outs, the rate of which has been doubling every decade. One report in 2002 warned that more frequent natural disasters in future could bring insurers, re-insurers and banks ‘to the point of impaired viability or even insolvency’. The insurance companies usually offset their potential liabilities by trading some of the premium (like a bookie ‘off-setting’ a large bet with another bookie) with a re-insurance company. Many of these companies

thoughts on probiotics

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I was out for a run through a local park; which I was really enjoying, especially through the wooded section of that park, full of the joys of life in the middle of nowhere I came across what was obviously a recently discarded Actimel drink single use plastic carton with its silver foil lid still on? This initially made me think it had been accidently dropped not chucked away, but alas no the foil lid had been closed back the way after the contents had been drank, this really saddened me who would do such a thing what sort of person thinks this is acceptable what sort of society do I live in? these were my immediate thoughts which changed to the sort of person that falls for that marketing trick is the sort of person who chucks away single use plastic cartons in local beauty spots! I had to reflect on that because there was a time I also fell for that trick, it wasn’t truly all that long ago either! it had only been around four years previous to this that I had stopped buying these