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Many young people are not saving for their pension, because they think climate change will end the world
They will be astonished when they realize they will not only survive climate change but thrive
marketwatch.com/story/how-to-g…
The average income in GDP/person will increase to 300-500% or even 1,000% of today's income according to the UN's own scenarios for 21st century
SSPs except SSP3, which is 'only' 170%
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
While global warming — even if we do nothing — will cost a rather manageable 2-4% of GDP by the end of the century
Here the updated UN Climate Panel overview by Nobel Laureate climate economist, Nordhaus
nber.org/reporter/2017n…
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Bjorn Lomborg
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Unbridled climate alarmism:
"But what about the many millions of people directly threatened, living in low-lying nations?"
"They will die"

Sorry, no:
1) Over 81 years, they will move, not die
2) Adaptation means almost none will move

Unfounded terror scaring people needlessly
Take this new alarmist paper, which made the rounds in the last weeks. It talks about 187 million people displaced — not flooded, not killed.

Obviously, people will not stay and drown.
pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.107…, I wrote about how badly wrong this is here: wsj.com/articles/exami…
But notice their reference for the 187 million (#38)
Here is the paper.
It says the following in the abstract:
187 million, but can be avoided by paying 0.02% of GDP

Should reporters not be responsible for pointing this out, so people don't get so scared?
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…
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Bjorn Lomborg
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Tax evasion in Scandinavia: using the Panama Papers, HSBC leak, and amnesty data, the rich evade 25% of their tax
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… (available here: gabriel-zucman.eu/files/AJZ2019.…)
This is a lot more than what was commonly thought from random audits, which show that poor and rich rarely evade more than 4% of their taxes
Also means that inequality is higher than previously thought, here for top 0.1% wealth in Sweden 1940-2010
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Bjorn Lomborg
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No, this girl very likely won't die from climate change
She is likely to live longer than any other cohort has done before, because she's richer, better educated and live in a technologically advanced society
And she won't die from climate, because almost nobody does
... anymore
facebook.com/bjornlomborg/p…
Maybe we should — I don't know — stop scaring kids?
And stop thinking it is okay for adults to scare kids?
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