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Calculating the economic cost of climate change is tricky, even futile – it’s also a distraction

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Calculating the economic cost of climate change is tricky, even futile – it’s also a distraction

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Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 11 months ago

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Our energies would be better spent tackling the tangible effects of global heating than debating the future dollar value of failing to act.

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The cost is everything.

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