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I bet the $10,000/car number is mini, tiny, little compared to the actual cost of climate change (e.g $119 billions won't be enough to protect NYC from sea leve

I bet the $10,000/car number is mini, tiny, little compared to the actual cost of climate change (e.g $119 billions won't be enough to protect NYC from sea level rise https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/nyregion/sea-wall-nyc.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/nyregion/sea-wall-nyc.htm...). The global cost of climate change simply cannot be priced in $ when it isn't even sure mankind would survive +5°C.

bryanlarsen 6y ago
$10K per car * 1 billion cars -> $10T. So more than the estimates of what it would cost to prevent climate change, but less than the estimates of what it would cost to mitigate it. > isn't even sure mankind would survive +5°C. Humans live in Siberia and the Antarctic. The human species will survive. But whether civilization survives is a different question.