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ProfessorGAC

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2. And, There Is The Lever!!!
Thu Apr 22, 2021, 04:25 PM
Apr 2021

I've been hoping for quite some time that private enterprise would put forth a quantified analysis of the COST of not confronting this issue.
$23 trillion, even if debatable, will get attention, especially if that cost is proportional to a country's fraction of global GDP. And that figure can't possibly be debated as greater than 10-15% overstated.
Plus, it's important this is out forty by a large corporation. Not a university study, not from an environmental activist group, not a think tank, nor government agency.
People whose job it is to assess financial risk & profit potential are putting out this warning.
An insurance company putting a price tag on it.
Very important.

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