Climate change costs $16 million per hour in damage, mostly due to extreme weather events. Policymakers should use this data to allocate funds to help countries rebuild.

You'd think this would give us some wiggle money to play with to build out new energy infrastructure. You're wrong though, there is no wiggle. We need all renewables like Germany.

Although the transition to EVs will require an enormous increase in base production capacity, it would be wasteful to build out nuclear to meet it.

$16m an hour might seem like a lot of damage, but nuclear can only exacerbate economic loss which is equally important as climatic loss.

Renewables now!

  • verdigris@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    And even if they did, in many cases they'd be legally obliged to ignore it in favor of profits this quarter. At least in the US.