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by LeeHunter 4358 days ago
Eh, seriously?

"By 2030, the benefits of these three sets of sector policies would include 94,000 premature deaths avoided annually and GDP growth of $1.8 trillion-$2.6 trillion per year," according to the report. "The policies would avoid 8.5 gigatons of CO2-equivalent and almost 16 billion kilowatt-hours of energy saved, roughly equivalent to taking 2 billion cars off the road. Together, these implementing these policies could represent about 30 percent of the total reduction needed in 2030 to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius."

http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/10643/world-bank-climate...

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Who benefits from climate reform? Rich People. -people with beach front property. -Green energy producers whose products are otherwise not economically viable. -People with "green" businesses that can sell Rec credits.

Who is harmed? Poor people. -Higher fuel prices -Higher food prices (fuel is the big input, and warming creates more farmland-- think Canada and Siberia)

Wow. Just a raft of unfounded assumptions there. For example, warming won't necessarily create farmland in Canada (much of the topsoil in Canada is very poor anyway) but will certainly destroy vast amounts of farmlands in warmer countries ... along with devastating the oceans as a food supply (via acidification). Everyone loses with a warming climate.