[Transpire7487]

This fails to take into account the reduced quality of life from implementing things like carbon taxes and other regulations that increase the costs of everyday goods and services, ultimately increasing the cost of living. Essentially making everyone poorer. Poverty increases your risk of mortality quite substantially.

Canada implemented carbon taxes to reduce emissions. Emissions still rose and everything just became more expensive.

[mort96]

From what I understand, large infrastructure investments (such as building out a green electric grid) are great for the economy.

Even if it's a net cost though... it's not like there isn't enough money to go around. If only there was a way to redistribute that wealth so that poor people didn't get even poorer.

I really truly don't think the only two options are "do nothing" or "do something but at such a great cost to people's quality of life that the cost outweighs the many millions or billions of lives saved".

[Transpire7487]

I'm all for large infrastructure investments in clean energy. Unfortunately the people in power where I live (Northern Ontario in Canada) only seem interested in inneffective taxes and crony capitalism.

Any so-called attempt to "redistribute wealth" has led to massive inflation and a borderline humanitarian crisis in our cities with people losing their homes and becoming addicted to deadly drugs on the streets.

[mort96]

I'm much more likely to agree with criticism of any particular climate policy than the general statement "it's too late and the cost of any climate policy would outweigh the benefits".

[COM9]

This fails to take into account the reduced quality of life due to climate change itself.