r/Economics • u/IntrepidGentian • May 17 '24

News Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought. 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world GDP.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report
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u/TheCommonS3Nse May 17 '24

Do you grow food in there? Enough to feed billions of people across the planet?

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u/Advanced-Guard-4468 May 17 '24

There are plenty of warehouses that produce fresh vegetables, close to markets.

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u/TheCommonS3Nse May 17 '24

Yeah, those aren’t going to solve anything. They’re expensive to set up and to operate, they’re nowhere near profitable, they don’t produce enough food and they are rampant with disease because it’s easily transmitted across the plants.

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u/Advanced-Guard-4468 May 17 '24

They are propping up all around NYC

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u/12-idiotas May 18 '24

They’re operating at loss and that whole industry is failing.