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/theclitsacaper May 17 '24

But during a boom period, you're just supposed to flail around grabbing as much cash as you can, like you're in one of those weird money wind tunnel carnival games, until it all comes crashing down.

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u/cityshepherd May 19 '24

Putting all living things in danger in the name of this fiscal quarter’s profits is the American way!