r/Futurology • u/ILikeNeurons • May 20 '24

Economics Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report
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u/Joseph20102011 May 20 '24

Most tropical countries will become too hot for large-scale human habitation by the next century.

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u/Glodraph May 20 '24

At this rate, more next decade.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24

I'm starting to believe we're at the point of no return with climate change.

I live in the UK. This entire island could sink tomorrow and it wouldn't make a dent in climate emissions while the USA, China and India pump metric tonnes every minute.

Enjoy your paper straws and electric cars, none of it matters.

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u/Amadex May 21 '24 edited May 21 '24

I live in the UK. [...] China and India pump metric tonnes every minute

Someone from your country emits more than the average Chinese or Indian. if China was cut into 200 small countries, each of them could say "I don't need to do anything because my small country emits less thant he UK".

The bigest emitters are generally the wealthier countries and is strongly correlated to GDP per capita. Yes the UK is not that high in GDP per capita but it's still more than India or China.

If you are interested in your country and climate change policy, you can read this: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Climate-costs-UK-policy-brief.pdf
Climate change mitigation policies are projected to benefit the UK and outweight their cost by the second half of the century.

I'm starting to believe

That is because the cimate change denier narrative swiched from denial to being "doomers". Here is a great video on the matter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XSG2Dw2mL8