@[email protected]M to [email protected] • 8 months agoClimate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°arstechnica.commessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1429
arrow-up1429external-linkClimate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°arstechnica.com@[email protected]M to [email protected] • 8 months agomessage-square59fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink70•8 months agoWe will spend it then because they will have to. They won’t spend it now because it’s not necessary. It’s human nature.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink54•8 months agoThem: profit now, dead later. Young people: pay now, pay later.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•8 months agoLooking at much of human history, it’s a common mantra. The children are our future. The future is their problem.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•8 months agoIt won’t be spending. Land, buildings, businesses, capitals will be lost. That’s cost and spending won’t fight back the sea. Not everywhere that matters, populated areas will be written off.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•8 months agoIt will be a hard fought lesson but one modern society needs to experience
We will spend it then because they will have to. They won’t spend it now because it’s not necessary. It’s human nature.
Them: profit now, dead later.
Young people: pay now, pay later.
“I got mine.”
Looking at much of human history, it’s a common mantra. The children are our future. The future is their problem.
Hi. It’s me. The children.
It won’t be spending.
Land, buildings, businesses, capitals will be lost. That’s cost and spending won’t fight back the sea. Not everywhere that matters, populated areas will be written off.
It will be a hard fought lesson but one modern society needs to experience