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Monday, October 22, 2007

A good point - enough with the debate on climate change.

This is a nice argument for stopping the debate on climate change and getting on with it.  I don't believe in the only answer to be policy change but it is an important one.  The basic argument is this:

- we can't know for certain whether or not we are impacting climate change or what will happen
- we can only choose whether or not we are going to do something about it
- that choice really comes down to an assessment of the risk in acting or not
- if we act, worst case is economic downturn
- if we don't act, worst case is economic downturn PLUS other global catashrophies

Pretty 'simple' choice in the end isn't it.

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