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The high costs of doing nothing, part I
Spending on adaptation and mitigation now is an investment, spending later is a waste |
Joseph Romm |
09 Jan 2008 |
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| This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- A dirty little secret of climate change is that somebody wants us to pay much higher taxes and higher energy bills. But it's not the advocates of climate action. It's the other guys. Make no mistake: The costs of switching to clean energy and an energy-efficient economy are far less than the costs of doing nothing. A study release ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, economy, severe weather (all these topics) |
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