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Originally Posted by Ark2
Seems that you are completely ignoring the economic consequences of "doing something now". Not sure how you can come to your conclusion honestly while doing so.
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The economic consequences are orders of magnitude smaller than the costs of doing nothing. You cannot have everything. Either you work to avoid disaster now or you get disaster.
And the consequences of doing something are just not large enough to be a reason to do nothing. Most modelling of what it would take to reduce emissions by 50% by 2050 means that our growth would be 2-4% less than what it otherwise would have been if we did nothing. That's essentially nothing. It less than the insurance you pay on your house as a percentage of your net income to avoid a fire. That's an appropriate analogy. Actually, the risks of your house catching fire are significantly lower than climate change having a material and significant impact on your life yet you don't see the value in taking an insurance policy out against that. Why?