The cost of a comprehensive Green New Deal will be extensive and the transition away from the convenience that fossil fuels provide (to which we have become so accustomed) requires a paradigm shift in thinking.
We must consider that the potential costs of inaction will be incomparably higher; mass famines, species losses, unprecedented migration, increased likelihood of pandemics, conflicts over resources and all the associated financial costs that accompany such tragedies (£460 trillion by some estimates).
The resources to decarbonise our world are available if our elected public officials care enough to consider the solutions. It is simply a matter of political will to change from business as usual to clean technologies.
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