Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?
by Carpetsmoker on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @06:33PM
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> If the main argument is economic costs
Economic, human, and ecological costs. I am not hugely in favour of reducing everything to economics (although it's definitely an important part).
I also don't think that it's as simple as "$1 trillion of USA resources to prevent $10 trillion of future losses in SE Asia". Globalisation means that "local" economies aren't really all that local; so problems in e.g. SE Asia will also affect other parts of the world.
Economic, human, and ecological costs. I am not hugely in favour of reducing everything to economics (although it's definitely an important part).
I also don't think that it's as simple as "$1 trillion of USA resources to prevent $10 trillion of future losses in SE Asia". Globalisation means that "local" economies aren't really all that local; so problems in e.g. SE Asia will also affect other parts of the world.