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> it is happening and it is killing us While the "it is happening" part has good amount of supporting data and is almost certainly true, the killing us part is
by chr1 7y ago
> it is happening and it is killing us
While the "it is happening" part has good amount of supporting data and is almost certainly true, the killing us part is much more questionable, most predictions agree that if we do nothing it will cause <10% gdp loss in 2100 compared to the scenario where it did not happen. So we need to make sure that whatever we do to prevent climate change doesn't cause more economic loss than climate change itself, and mostly invest in developing new technology and helping poor countries to become richer.
- esotericn 7y agoThought experiment: tomorrow we delete the countries of Africa. Literally gone, the continent ceases to exist. Maybe we keep SA and the northern bits like Tunisia etc. Global GDP probably declines less than 10%, right? You can't reduce everything to money in these terms.
- chr1 7y agoThat's a very important point, and i should have mentioned it in my comment. In 100 years the poor countries will be much richer, and we have opportunity to help improve their situation sooner which in turn would help everyone by making markets larger and increasing the number of people working on science. In some cases helping this countries directly will have more effect than wasting money on biofuel subsidies. Bjørn Lomborg have many interesting talks/writings about this issue.