$20 Trillion to Save the Planet

The cost of changing our energy sources and economy to save the Earth and its inhabitants from the effects of global warming is at least a staggering $20 TRILLION and probably more realistically double to triple of that. It is unimaginable to believe governments, corporations, and the wealthy are going to spend and invest anywhere near this kind of money that would be required to keep society and civilization operating largely as it is now, as flawed as it currently is.

The inevitable logical conclusion is that global warming is going to continue to increase full force and much more powerfully and quickly than is being discussed resulting in enormous numbers of deaths and huge numbers of displaced people, substantially altered ecosystems and mass extinctions of wildlife, a marked change in weather, climate, temperature, and precipation patterns and predictability, and a crippling impact on perhaps billions of people with vast property losses and steep declines in standards of living and quality of life down to the most basic levels of drinking water, foods, and dietary nutrition.


http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/31/6751/


http://www.voanews.com/english/Science/2008-02-01-voa21.cfm



http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/01/bill-we-just-ha.html



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