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Trillion-Dollar Climate Policies Far Outweigh Their Negligible Benefits
« on: January 22, 2025, 07:28:41 am »
Trillion-Dollar Climate Policies Far Outweigh Their Negligible Benefits
Turns out climate spending costs the world more than climate change does.
by Bjorn Lomborg  Jan 21, 2025 

Across the world, public finances are stretched dangerously thin. Per-person growth continues dropping while costs are climbing for pensions, education, health care, and defense. [emphasis, links added]

These urgent priorities could easily require an additional three to six percent of GDP. Yet green campaigners are loudly calling for governments to spend up to 25 percent of our GDP, choking growth in the name of climate change.

If climate Armageddon were imminent, they would have a point. The truth is far more prosaic.

Two major scientific estimates of the total global cost of climate change have been published recently. These are not individual studies, which can vary (with the costliest studies getting copious press coverage).

https://climatechangedispatch.com/trillion-dollar-climate-policies-far-outweigh-their-negligible-benefits/
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Re: Trillion-Dollar Climate Policies Far Outweigh Their Negligible Benefits
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2025, 08:58:56 am »
Trillion-Dollar Climate Policies Far Outweigh Their Negligible Benefits
Turns out climate spending costs the world more than climate change does.

Costs more in both money and the loss of freedom
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Re: Trillion-Dollar Climate Policies Far Outweigh Their Negligible Benefits
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2025, 09:31:56 am »
Global Climate Change policies are nonsense.  They are Green Communist pablum puke meant to weaken the West.

To stop Global Climate Change, we just need to ignore Al Gore.
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« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2025, 09:53:41 am »
If you are on the receiving end of government largess, who cares whether the product actually works?

Ethanol, now required in our gasoline, is a prime example. It costs far more to produce than the value of any energy benefits we get from it and has done and continues to do immeasurable amounts of damage to our motorized equipment, yet we continue to subsidize the damned stuff. Why?

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« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2025, 10:17:33 am »
Been screaming this on forums for 25+ years. 

Can't believe it has taken this long for the general populus to wake up.
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« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2025, 10:41:38 am »
Quote from: catfish1957 on January 22, 2025, 10:17:33 am
Been screaming this on forums for 25+ years. 

Can't believe it has taken this long for the general populus to wake up.

Me and you both my friend!
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« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2025, 10:46:51 am »
The ethanol in gasoline pork barrel scam is also inflationary as it increases to cost of corn for food and feed.
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« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2025, 11:38:59 am »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on January 22, 2025, 10:46:51 am
The ethanol in gasoline pork barrel scam is also inflationary as it increases to cost of corn for food and feed.

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