The Smart Money Will Fight The Climate Crisis
Fighting Climate Change Is The Cheapest Option We Have Left, Modelling Shows
Daniel Nield, 3 February 2020 (ScienceAlert)
“…[New research investigating the future costs of dealing with a warming planet shows] the longer we wait to take action, the more we're going to have to pay…[The cheapest option] is to pay what it takes to limit the global temperature rise over the next century to 2 degrees Celsius…
…[The research weighed] the costs of cutting greenhouse gas emissions (through a reduction in the use of coal) against the costs of further climate change – increasing weather extremes, reduced human labour capacity, and so on…There are a lot of variables to consider – how consumption patterns might alter, the impact climate change might have on conflicts around the world, the effects of various tipping points that we haven't calculated for yet…[Based on the best data we have, putting] action off to a future date is only going to become more and more costly…” click here for more
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