jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 8 months agoClimate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1434arrow-down15
arrow-up1429arrow-down1external-linkClimate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°arstechnica.comjeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-squareInucune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·8 months agoDamages for who? Someone else will get suckered into paying for it, I’ll get to keep MY money and the problem will be fixed. Now, if the government is willing to pay me billions to fix it, I might be interested… /S
minus-squarepostmateDumbass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoDamages? More like gross income for a smart, proactive company. All this spending to repair damages and save lives is the biggest revenue opportunity of the century. Climate change is an opportunity, not a problem, it could make you rich if you work hard enough. /s
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoThe other half of “for whom” is what parts of the world. Does it cost anything if the impact is felt by people who can’t do anything about it, in a cold world where no one cares to help?
Damages for who?
Someone else will get suckered into paying for it, I’ll get to keep MY money and the problem will be fixed.
Now, if the government is willing to pay me billions to fix it, I might be interested… /S
Damages?
More like gross income for a smart, proactive company.
All this spending to repair damages and save lives is the biggest revenue opportunity of the century.
Climate change is an opportunity, not a problem, it could make you rich if you work hard enough.
/s
The other half of “for whom” is what parts of the world. Does it cost anything if the impact is felt by people who can’t do anything about it, in a cold world where no one cares to help?