jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agoClimate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up1265arrow-down13
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minus-squareJimmycakes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up36arrow-down3·1 year agoWe will spend it then because they will have to. They won’t spend it now because it’s not necessary. It’s human nature.
minus-squareHobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25·1 year agoThem: profit now, dead later. Young people: pay now, pay later.
minus-squareAPassenger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoIt won’t be spending. Land, buildings, businesses, capitals will be lost. That’s cost and spending won’t fight back the sea. Not everywhere that matters, populated areas will be written off.
minus-squareJimmycakes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIt will be a hard fought lesson but one modern society needs to experience
We will spend it then because they will have to. They won’t spend it now because it’s not necessary. It’s human nature.
Them: profit now, dead later.
Young people: pay now, pay later.
It won’t be spending.
Land, buildings, businesses, capitals will be lost. That’s cost and spending won’t fight back the sea. Not everywhere that matters, populated areas will be written off.
It will be a hard fought lesson but one modern society needs to experience