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Old 08-19-2019, 12:51 AM   #818
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Interesting how the discussion is so often centered on the economics of climate change.

What will be the costs, in real dollars and to our economy, to get away from fossil fuels?

Oh, climate change won't actually hurt our economy? Well no problem then, all good.

Climate change isn't an economic issue, we just can't stop seeing it that way.
Healthcare is like this too.

"Oh we should incentivize people to stop smoking or use taxes to prevent them from smoking to save money"

Reality is smokers save us way more than they cost because they die before they go into an expensive old folks home. The economics don't make sense in reality.



We simply have to find different parameters to measure success in the future
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