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The NDP also defends its plan by noting the economic analysis produced last fall doesn’t take into account the cost of doing nothing, such as.....the impact of climate change itself on the province.
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I'm convinced that climate change of anything but the runaway Venus-type scale will be positive for Alberta.
We have plenty of water (and would do even in the event that the glaciers all melt as they contribute a slim fraction of surface water compared to snow, rain and groundwater from the mountains), and would gain a band of 100's of kms of arable land, as well as facilitating more valuable crops in the land we already have. The climate would be more pleasant, heating houses would be cheaper, we wouldn't have to scrape the roads free of as much snow and so on.
At worst, we would have the climate of Nebraska or Kansas - hardly hellscapes.
That's no reason to damn the people who would be hurt hard by catastrophic climate change and say the melting of the West Antarctic ice shelf (Bangladesh + some pretty significant coastal cities), but I have yet to see any evidence that there would be major costs that wouldn't be offset by gains here for us.