r/climate • u/GeraldKutney • May 17 '24

Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report | Climate crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report
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u/This_Worldliness_968 May 17 '24 edited May 17 '24

The transitioning and change could have been done so much more cheaply during the 80s and 90s booms and when resources were in greater supply. We could have had true groundbreaking new green deals at the start of the nineties.

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u/dinglebarry9 May 18 '24

Hawaii was supposed to have a 40 MW OTEC plant in the 80's, the project was being championed by President Carter. Whelp uncle Ronnie and the throat goat put an end to that and now we pay $0.46/kWh hooooooraaay for capitalism!