California’s Property Insurance Market | Indigenous-Led Burning Group TERA | Evolutionary Science Behind Attraction

How insurers are responding to California’s challenging property insurance market. Also, the Indigenous-led cultural burning group TERA. Finally, a researcher studies the evolutionary science of attraction.

California’s Property Insurance Market The wildfires across the Los Angeles-area revived a growing concern surrounding California’s insurance market. As natural disasters grow more destructive, finding affordable coverage has become increasingly challenging. And some insurers have backed out or limited service in states like California, arguing that the cost of providing services has exceeded the premiums charged. This has been an ongoing conversation on Insight, with different voices. Today, we’re going to listen to the challenges the insurance industry is facing. Mark Sektnan is the Vice President of State Government Relations for the American Property Casualty Insurance Association, which represents insurers across the state.

Indigenous-Led Burning Group TERA California has long had a complicated relationship with fire. Following decades of policies focused on keeping fires suppressed, in recent years there has been a shift to proactively use fire to reduce wildfire threats. This includes prescribed burns, but also reintroducing Indigenous cultural burning into the state’s larger land management strategies. CapRadio Environmental Reporter Manola Secaira talks about the work of the Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance (TERA), an Indigenous-led group sharing knowledge about cultural burning, and how it is changing how people and organizations think about fire.

Evolutionary Science Behind Attraction Have you ever been curious about the science behind attraction? Or wondered whether there was any truth to the tales behind Cupid’s lucky love arrows? You can find out at this month’s Davis Science Cafe featuring Dr. Paul Eastwick, Professor of Psychology at UC Davis and host of the Love Factually podcast. He joins us on Insight today for a sneak peek of his talk, The (Deeply Misunderstood) Evolutionary Science of Attraction on Wednesday, Feb. 12th at 5:30 p.m. at G Street WunderBar in Davis. Free to attend.