The Economic Cost of Climate Change

The Economic Cost of Climate Change

Climate Change
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LWVUS Blog / Last Updated: June 9, 2022
This blog post was written by Diz Swift, Dan Zalles, and Carolyn Caywood - LWV Climate Interest Group, a group of League members from across the United States working together to fight climate change.

Carbon emissions are causing widespread and potentially irreversible damage to the environment — and also have a significant impact on the economy.

While some people rationalize our failure to decrease emissions by keeping that the actions needed to do so would hurt the economy, the costs of doing nothing are even higher and are increasing with every day of inaction.

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