Remember how Y2K was going to lead to blackouts, bank runs and worse?
Well, it didn't. We had a deadline. We invested somewhere from $300 to $500 billion(!), and things turned out fine.
Climate change has no Y2K deadline. That's what makes it even harder to deal with
Me in nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqezrvq0qeh65tkpcg9a8a08pl4mjaskfh6zd5rw358af87vqng4hqm5f4xl (nprofile…f4xl) https://www.salon.com/2025/05/01/climate-change-is-both-predictable-and-unpredictable-we-dont-need-certainty-to-know-its-a/
#climate #economics
Gernot Wagner
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