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bogfiton Aug 15, 2022 11:32am
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An early economic cost of climate change -
An early economic cost of climate change -“The province of Sichuan is asking factories to shut in order to alleviate a power shortage as heat waves boost power demand and drain rivers that provide hydro generation”
It's going to get serious if we can't get our supply chains healthy again and soon. An industrial city-wide shutdown is like an octopus with a hundred tenacles that ravage productivity both near and far. The longer the economy takes to recover, the greater the chance of falling backwards into recession.
We can address our own problems by accepting reality and taking all the efforts we can fund to prepare for the worse that is coming. Obviously we won't be able to do all we would wish. We won't refill Lake Mead anytime soon unless the Green River Watershed gets an enormous amount of snow. We won't be able to prevent our forests from burning, but we can establish large scale tree farms and employ immigrants in planting and forest maintainence. Sure it will cost money but do we want forests or not, and it does kill two birds, does't it not?
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