Climate Change Could Cut the Economy in Half. We’re Not Ready for It.

Photo caption: The Shell Fire rages on late Sunday night, July 27, 2021, having burned nearly 2,000 acres. […] Photo credit: Russ Allison Loar via Wikimedia. (no modifications) CC BY-SA 4.0. Article by Genevieve Guenther. The New Republic – January 23, 2025. Study: Global risk management for human prosperity.

Later this century, sometime toward my teenage son’s late middle age, climate change might torch 50 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. I’ll say that again. Sometime around 2070–2090, climate change could be doing so much damage to ecological and human systems, and the links between them, that the global economy could contract by half. […]

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