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Environment & Energy

NickB79

(20,294 posts)

10. It's as much an economic as moral goal

Reply to at140 (Reply #8)

Sun May 19, 2019, 12:22 PM

May 2019

As the climate worsens, the nations that have built the most resilience, reduced dependency on fossil fuels, researched, built and deployed the most low-carbon tech will be the nations that see the best survival as the planet warms. They'll be able to protect their people and economies from the climate shocks.

Even if no other nations decarbonized, a unilateral switch would lessen the blow when the seas rise and the crops start to fail.

The alternative is a total collapse of human civilization.