The Cost of Stopping Global Warming

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The Cost of Stopping Global Warming
written by Daniel Sutter July 27, 2021

 
Professor at Troy University
 

In 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change set a new goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.  The costs and consequences of aggressive action against global warming basically exceed comprehension.  Recent research in sustainability buttresses this point.

Estimates put the level of energy use “compatible with avoiding 1.5ºC of global warming without relying on negative emissions technology” at around 7,500 kilowatt-hours per person per year.  Americans currently use more than ten times this level, so our energy use would need to decline drastically.

A new paper in Global Environmental Change examines whether adequate quality of life is possible with low energy use.  The research uses six quality of life measures from the World Bank: life expectation, food consumption, safe drinking water, safe sanitation, education, and poverty.  Acceptable levels of the six measures were specified.  The 29 of 106 nations examined achieving all six life quality targets use at least double the sustainable energy threshold.

https://blog.heartland.org/2021/07/the-cost-of-stopping-global-warming/

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Title and presumption:
"The Cost of Stopping Global Warming..."

Whether it's:
$1
or
$1,000,000
or
$1,000,000,000,000
or
$1,000,000,000,000,000,000
or
$1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
or
$1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
or
$1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
or
$1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
or
$1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000...

... it WILL NOT "stop" "global warming", nor will it halt "climate change".
So...
Why spend more than $1.00 ??