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Well, for comparison, https://e360.yale.edu/digest/coal-costs-us-half-trillion-annually-in-hidden-costs-study-says https://e360.yale.edu/digest/coal-costs-us-h
by yongjik 7y ago
Well, for comparison,
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/coal-costs-us-half-trillion-annually-in-hidden-costs-study-says https://e360.yale.edu/digest/coal-costs-us-half-trillion-ann...
> Coal production costs the U.S. up to $500 billion each year in hidden health, economic, and environmental impacts, according to a new study by Harvard researchers.
https://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/2018/0606.html https://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/2018/0606.html
> ... Britain’s car addiction ... is likely costing our NHS and society in general more than £6 billion per year.
(Which is about $7B USD, for a single modest-sized country, for a single mode of fossil fuel consumption, per year.)
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/03/19/climate-change-could-force-over-140-million-to-migrate-within-countries-by-2050-world-bank-report https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/03/19/c...
> Climate Change Could Force Over 140 Million to Migrate Within Countries by 2050: World Bank Report
(Well, of course, such predictions are very imprecise: it could be 30 million, or 2 billion. But most likely more than Fukushima, by a very wide margin.)