Comments on: The High Cost of Doing Nothing https://www.bobcesca.com/the-high-cost-of-doing-nothing-2/ We Cover The World Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 By: Badgerite https://www.bobcesca.com/the-high-cost-of-doing-nothing-2/#comment-96161 Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:53:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=129326#comment-96161 In reply to Draxiar.

Bingo. Ding, ding ding, ding. We have a winner.
Were the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community to be wrong, we would have gotten for our trouble all of the above ( see better world). If that consensus is right and we do nothing but continue on our present path of dependence on fossil fuels, we face disaster. Hmmm. Let me think. Disaster… better world. Disaster…..better world. Hmmm.
I will go with “better world”.

]]> By: muselet https://www.bobcesca.com/the-high-cost-of-doing-nothing-2/#comment-96158 Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:20:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=129326#comment-96158 If almost anything else—other than a weapons system—cost the federal government $35 billion a year, largely in avoidable expenses, there would be no end to the congressional hearings and White House speechifying. It would be deemed The Worst Thing Ever! by politicians and pundits alike.

But climate change? Doing something about that would mean lower profits for extraction industries, more hybrid and all-electric cars on the road, more efficient home appliances, expanded use of LED lighting, even *scary music sting* solar panels! Unpossible! Un-American!

I fully expect the budget for the GAO to be cut by some multiple of the cost of producing this report.

–alopecia

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