Won't someone think of the economy! /s
this post was submitted on 17 May 2024
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I mean, if it convinces people to actually do something about the climate? Yeah, let's crow about it.
A lot of the remaining resistance to fighting against climate change is made based on a "it's too expensive" or "companies would lose too much profit" argument. If we can tell them they'd lose more if they don't help? They might do something.
I mean, if that gets it done, that'd be great. Unfortunately the dinosaurs with billions of dollars don't give a shit about the long term when they can increase their wealth right now.
I have a pet conspirarcy theory about that ... the singular reason they're raping the economy (meaning us) is that they need to be high enough up the ladder to be picked for a seat on the Mars/moon shuttles to their new homes. Otherwise they risk having to stay down here and drown/starve/roast to death with the rest of us.
There is no way they will make another orb comfortable to be on within their lifetimes.
They won't have yachts, five-star hotels, fine dining. There would be, what, hundreds of people at most? They won't have the small armies of staff. They will have to do their fair share of the labor. They would be trapped in a single frigid biodome eating goo from tubes and leaving only briefly in a spacesuit to wipe down solar panels outside.
Anyone planning to escape climate change by fleeing the planet is so astronomically wrong. It is far cheaper and easier to fix this climate than it is to terraform Mars.
scenario that the new working paper, yet to be peer-reviewed, states will come with an enormous economic cost. A 3C temperature increase will cause “precipitous declines in output, capital and consumption that exceed 50% by 2100” the paper states.
Is this journalism?