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Oil companies owe the world trillions in climate reparations. This study calculates the exact cost

05-19-23

When a climate disaster hits, the people who pay the biggest price often had the least to do with causing the problem. Take, for example, the devastating heat wave this spring in South Asia—made 30 times worse by climate change—followed by a cyclone that tore through refugee camps in Bangladesh and Myanmar. Myanmar’s historical emissions are a tiny fraction of the emissions from the United States.

In some cases, insurance companies help foot the bill for damages, and taxpayers also pay via disaster recovery agencies. Last year, wealthy countries finally agreed to support a “loss and damage” fund for climate impacts in lower-income nations. But some argue that fossil fuel companies, responsible for most greenhouse gas emissions, should be shouldering a large part of the burden. A new study published in the journal One Earth suggests how to calculate exactly how much they owe.

Between 2025 and 2050, based on a survey of hundreds of climate economists, the total economic damages from climate change is estimated at a staggering $99 trillion; nearly $70 trillion of that can be attributed to fossil fuel emissions. “We’re probably underestimating likely damages,” says study coauthor Richard Heede, director of the Climate Accountability Institute.

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More and more of these climate blockades in London.

I think somebody's going to lose their life soon. And if things seem tense now, imagine the sort of protests in 2030, 2040...

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wjfox wrote: Tue May 23, 2023 8:46 am More and more of these climate blockades in London.

I think somebody's going to lose their life soon. And if things seem tense now, imagine the sort of protests in 2030, 2040...

I saw a similar one on a group that got suggested for me which appeared on Facebook of a man that shuffed them around on the floor etc.
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^^^The danger is that future protests will be right-wing in orientation. That is that the root cause of climate change will be ignored, and that opportunistic elements on the right will instead use deteriorating conditions as a justification for seizing power from more "moderate" regimes. "Moderates" need to realize the extent of the crisis and stop dismissing political movements that are further to the left as being "too radical." Their ill-thought-out form of centrism is actually quite extremist and unrealistic in nature. At least over the long term, and the long term is becoming NOW.

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Nearly 2 Billion at Risk From "Unprecedented" Climate Conditions
by Andreew Freedman
May 23, 2023

Introduction:
(Axios) Absent new, more ambitious climate policies, the world is headed for a magnitude of climate change that would put about 2 billion people at risk of extreme heat by the end of the century, a new study finds.

Why it matters: Limiting global warming to the Paris Agreement's target of 1.5°C (2.7°F) above preindustrial levels would yield a five-fold reduction in the population exposed to unprecedented heat by the end of this century.

• The nearly 1.2°C (2.16°F) increase in global average surface temperatures to date has already knocked more than 600 million people out of the "human climate niche" in which society has historically thrived.

• The researchers of the study, published Monday in Nature Sustainability, define that niche by looking at how human population density varies with temperature and precipitation.

Read more here: https://www.axios.com/2023/05/23/clima ... ous-heat
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/\ Hmmm, for me, this is the one time that the protestors are morons. Gardens are a great thing regardless of the kind of plant as long as it's not grass. It's super reductionist to say that all gardens must be for food production. Botanical gardens preserve vulnerable species and provide places of education for people to appreciate the natural world, it's incredibly stupid to target one with a climate protest.
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