Earth911 Podcast: Consumer Reports' Chris Harto On The Lifetime Cost Of Climate Change
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http://consumerreports.org/ and https://breakthroughenergy.org/ recently put numbers on the social cost of carbon, calculating the cost for an American child born in 2024 due to climate change. They found that an...
mostra másThe social cost of carbon typically described in the aggregate, as representing trillions of dollars in added cost of living for future generations. The Biden administration pegs the social cost of carbon to a ton of emissions, currently pricing the future cost at $51 per ton of CO2 emitted today; more than ten times higher than the Trump era’s $5 per ton estimate but far below science based estimates of $185 per ton, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Resources for the Future. So, It’s hard to imagine the actual impact on us, or our grandchildren. The article, Climate Change Could Cost Each American Born Today $500,000, is available at https://www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/climate-change/the-per-person-financial-cost-of-climate-change-a6081217358/
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