Climate change to cost trillions, say economists
Despite these uncertainties, economists share a broad consensus: climate change will ultimately cost thousands of billions of dollars, a tab that keeps rising as more carbon enters the atmosphere.
"The cost of climate impacts goes up with the delay on emissions mitigation," said Sam Fankhauser of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics (LSE).
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Too many artices focus only on the costs of mitigation, rather than the total cost of impacts and mitigation. This article takes a better approach. Population control is still not mentioned as a long term need to limit environmental destruction.