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The actual cost of preventing climate breakdown

Yuval Noah Harari · TED

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Nobody really knows how much it would cost to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Yet historian Yuval Noah Harari's analysis, based on the work of scientists and economists, indicates that humanity might avert catastrophe by investing the equivalent of just two percent of global GDP into climate solutions. He makes the case that preventing ecological cataclysm will not require the major global disruptions many fear and explains that we already have the resources we need -- it's just a matter of shifting our priorities.

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Institution
TED
Department
TED Countdown New York Session 2022
Speaker
Yuval Noah Harari
Year
2022
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Earth and environment, Economics, Society and politics
Source
TED
Licence
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