💰 $9.2 trillion – that's how much the world needs to be spending every year in order to reach net zero and maintain a habitable world, according to new analysis.@BerniceWLee and @MichaelEMann react to this sum on the #DailyClimateShow.
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That is a lot of money.
Not compared to the costs of adaptation; it’s peanuts.
It is a lot of money.
It’s an especially large amount of money of somebody else’s that we have to get spent on something that powerful people won’t be getting privilege and pleasure from. I don’t see how that happens.
I’d like McKinsey to calculate how much cheaper it would be to kidnap and hide* a few hundred key people to effectively achieve the same result?
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*OK, I really meant assassinate.