[refurb]

If we spend hundreds of billions of dollars fighting CO2 (capturing it, moving to more expensive energy sources, etc), that’s hundreds of billions of dollars that could have been spent elsewhere, on other problems like cancer, heart disease, etc.

[travisporter]

Or hundreds of billions of dollars on football, flying cars, or whatever captures peoples' attention.

[spazx]

Or on proxy wars over more oil!

[carapace]

We (USA) could take it out of the defense budget if we tasked the military with climate security.