Eight: Mark Lynas on climate change
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours
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Climate Change
i think that we could probably largely prevent climate change without it being that costly, just on a global economic scale. I'm not even sure it's physically possible with a hundred adrenewables andn we've spent the last couple of weeks actually looking at some of the figures on this. If you're going to replace our oil consumption, you'd have to cover over one and a half times the size of wales with wi sola, just for oil. But never mind about decarbonizing electricity, gale and all the rest of it. So i don't think it's going to bankrupt the world to get off carbon. It's certainly more expensive than that if you go for
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