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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: combjelly who wrote (22214)6/21/2017 10:08:05 AM
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Now you are fear mongering

Here we have some really basic economics, soberly expressed: there is such a thing as opportunity cost. Money spent on fighting global warming is money not available to be spent on something else. Money does not grow on trees. There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding global climate change both in terms of risk and the efficacy of options to combat it.

It would seem wise to consider the marginal value of each additional dollar spent on the problem in comparison with other value that could be attained from it. It seems to me that throwing everything we have at the problem at the expense of other problems smacks of the same excess as hysteria and fear mongering about overspending.
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