Science Matters: Tackling climate change offers economic benefits

Tackling climate change offers economic benefits | Science Matters

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Science Matters: Tackling climate change offers economic benefits

As Michael Zammit Cutajar, former executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told the Guardian : "Climate change is not just a distant threat but a present danger — its economic impact is already with us." But we're to believe that corporate profits, ever-increasing growth, consumer culture, disposable products and often-meaningless jobs to keep it all going are more important than the health and survival of humans and other species, and true long-term economic prosperity. The report, "Climate Vulnerability Monitor: A Guide to the Cold Calculus of a Hot Planet", was compiled by 50 scientists, economists and experts for the Europe-based non-governmental organization DARA and 20 countries that joined to form the Climate Vulnerable Forum . As stated in the preface, it "challenges a conventional view: that global action on climate change is a cost to...

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