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by pedrocr 1765 days ago
Do you have a source on it being such a large amount of money? My impression is that just like water rights we've priced the externality so low that a lot of things weren't done even though they were cheap. Here's a 2007 analysis putting the cost at less than 1% GDP:

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/sustainability/o...