We went from, "it isn't happening" to "it is happening but not manmade and not a problem" to "this is a problem" to "this is manmade and a problem" and yet...
Now even MarketWatch and other business magazines, business entities and farmers are "tipping" over...
NEW YORK (Project Syndicate)—Like most worthwhile pursuits, reducing carbon pollution comes with costs. If it didn’t, climate change wouldn’t be a problem in the first place—at least not from a narrow economic perspective. But climate change, and what it demands of us, is also a deeply political issue.
Now that the direct economic costs of climate action have declined, the debate is shifting to the political and social difficulties of moving away from fossil fuels and toward a low-carbon, high-efficiency world.
On the matter of economic costs, climate action is becoming more affordable across the board. The costs of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels have plummeted by over 85% in under a decade, and by well over 99% since the first panels found their way onto people’s roofs in the early 1980s.
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It is clear that looking only at the costs of reducing carbon pollution is not enough; they must be compared with the costs of unmitigated climate change. Moreover, neither cost is, nor ever will be, distributed equally. Coal miners and manufacturers of internal combustion engines will necessarily bear more of the costs of climate action, whereas poor and vulnerable communities will bear the brunt of climate inaction.
Overall, though, there is no comparison: the costs of inaction far outweigh the costs of cutting carbon-dioxide emissions.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/climate-change-has-finally-reached-a-tipping-point-that-we-can-welcome-11620149776
