It's almost like solving this problem gets harder and harder the longer we put it off. If only we knew this was a looming problem 40 years ago and started doin

It's almost like solving this problem gets harder and harder the longer we put it off. If only we knew this was a looming problem 40 years ago and started doing something about it back then. The total economic cost would have been much lower. And the scary thing is, the cost of climate change is only going to get worse. Eventually we will reach a point where the cost is unavoidable, and we will be spending trillions dealing with the consequences rather than billions preventing them. There is a reason our own military pegs climate change as one of our biggest national security risks in the 21st century, because things are going to get very ugly when large populated regions of the world become inhospitable.