> Even the United States, the richest country in the history of the world, does not have enough money to protect every existing community from climate disasters.
My siblings talk about climate change as as a dramatic problem, but I fear it will be less-dramatic in precisely the worst ways: Immensely damaging by any economic metric, yet not flashy enough to motivate widespread and sustained political involvement.
Instead, relatively quietly, a large number of people get a little bit screwed, a smaller number of people get very screwed, and some other portion will profit from dumping net CO2 into the air.
> Even the United States, the richest country in the history of the world, does not have enough money to protect every existing community from climate disasters.
My siblings talk about climate change as as a dramatic problem, but I fear it will be less-dramatic in precisely the worst ways: Immensely damaging by any economic metric, yet not flashy enough to motivate widespread and sustained political involvement.
Instead, relatively quietly, a large number of people get a little bit screwed, a smaller number of people get very screwed, and some other portion will profit from dumping net CO2 into the air.