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| Just some of the damage of 'Superstorm Sandy' as week after the event. |
This is America and
not Australia it might be argued, but like the flow of money around the
world which appears unrestricted, climate change knows no boundaries.
A story in Mother
Jones headed: “Flood, Rebuild, Repeat: Are We Ready For Another Superstorm Sandy Every Other Year?” helps us understand the numbers, or the economics, of
climate change.
The economics of climate change induced damage appear at
first glance as contrived and cherry-picked to simply support arguments for
climate change, but they are not.
Rather, they are real, they are numbers that refer to
infrastructure, they are numerical additions that equate with the lives of
millions; they are the cost, the real cost, of ignoring the realities that humanity
has changed the world’s climate.
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