Nick Stern gets real
Posted: 11 Mar 2011, 18:24
Sir Nicholas Stern, he of the Stern Review, seems to be moving on from his former position of calculating the economic cost of global warming to a conclusion that the problem could be greater, beyond the scope of calculation.
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/ ... d-war-iii/
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/ ... d-war-iii/
What we’re talking about here — this the cost of inaction, the cost of not doing much — is a transformation of where we can be. Over a hundred, 120 years, we can’t be that precise, a serious risk of global war, really, because you’ve got hundreds of millions of people, perhaps billions of people moving. That’s the cost of inaction. It’s potentially immense.