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There is a Fix For Climate Change. But Can We Afford It?

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Energy Investment

We currently spend about two trillion dollars a year on energy investment globally, in the broadest sense of the word. We would then have to solve all the technological, social and political issues,. but that would give us the volume. As a bench mark, that is what low income countries currently spend on things like health or education. America spends ve times that much on health currently, as a share of american g d p. It's the bull park of the pentagon, budgon, extrapodated out to the entire world. But is it unmanageable? Absolutely not. Think fifties, sixties, cold war era. Not people talk bout world walto sometimes is

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