LONDON (AFP) - Global warming will cost the world up to seven trillion dollars in the next decade unless governments take drastic action soon, a major report will warn.Interestingly, the Tories are gaining support in the UK, and their leader, Cameron, won the position running on a green platform. If it takes conservatives to be green, so be it. I am beginning to think I am going to become a single issue voter: the environment.
Former World Bank chief economist Sir Nicholas Stern was commissioned last year by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown to lead a review into the economics of climate change and will deliver his findings Monday.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
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Global warming could cost trillions of dollars
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Here here. When we consider what's at stake - just the fate of the entire planet - it seems a good issue. Out with the cold war and in with global warming. At least nobody is getting rich off of it...oh wait...how much did you say it was going to cost the taxpayers?
Well. Pounds well spent.
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