Once again, it is cheaper to decarbonize our world now than to pay for the costs of climate damage in the future. “Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°.” [arstechnica.com] - ThreadSky

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kottke.org • 315 days ago

Once again, it is cheaper to decarbonize our world now than to pay for the costs of climate damage in the future. “Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°.” https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/climate-damages-by-2050-will-be-6-times-the-cost-of-limiting-warming-to-2/

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finvaara.bsky.social•315 days ago

Until we hold accountable the people profiting from creating the problem, the value prospect of the solution will not matter.

hammancheez.bsky.social•315 days ago

ah yes, but have you considered these costs will be borne by poor people vs. the preventative costs applied to multinationals being borne by shareholders

cra5htig3r.bsky.social•314 days ago

Not to mention that decarbonizing the economy might lead to degrowth and halting extractivist attitudes towards nature towards sustainability.
If the line stops going up and the world doesn't end people might realize that infinite growth on a finite planet is bonkers.