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Climate refugees have a large shot at flipping the cost / benefit ratio here. If we can get someone to enthusiastically explain we need to solve this problem by
by awinder 9y ago
Climate refugees have a large shot at flipping the cost / benefit ratio here. If we can get someone to enthusiastically explain we need to solve this problem by paying labor in OH, PA etc to work together with scientists and businesses right now. Or else we are gonna pay relocating a bunch of people, paying for wars, and generally just wasting a ton of bad money. It’s a problem with solutions that could really unite a bunch of people who are really divided right now, and history is calling for someone to step up and seize it
- ZeroGravitas 9y agoAll serious estimates I've seen suggest dealing with climate change is much cheaper than ignoring it (this Drawdown book agrees, and suggest 70 Trillion in benefits on a 20 Trillion investment). I wouldn't be surprised if climate migration was included in those costs, though I guess in terms of human death and misery translated into monetary terms, rather than "ooh scary immigrants". It's kind of weird how that has been successfully kept out of the conversation. Reminds me of all the headlines I read, even from sympathetic sources about the "high cost" of single payer healthcare, when again, serious estimates suggest it's cheaper overall.