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]]> By: Milan http://greenpolicyprof.org/wordpress/?p=818&cpage=1#comment-3307 Milan Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:51:30 +0000 http://greenpolicyprof.org/wordpress/?p=818#comment-3307 There is a longer-term economic issue here. If mainstream climate science is right, we should start seeing very serious climate effects within the next few decades. At that point, major countries like the US and China may start finally taking climate change seriously. If they do, a necessary action is to reduce their usage of fossil fuels. Canada may build billions of dollars worth of oil sands infrastructure, then discover that the world is (intelligently) refusing to buy the dangerous fuel. Then we will have wasted billions on the wrong infrastructure, worsened the impacts of climate change, and given ourselves less time to transition to a low-carbon economy, raising costs. There is a longer-term economic issue here.

If mainstream climate science is right, we should start seeing very serious climate effects within the next few decades.

At that point, major countries like the US and China may start finally taking climate change seriously. If they do, a necessary action is to reduce their usage of fossil fuels.

Canada may build billions of dollars worth of oil sands infrastructure, then discover that the world is (intelligently) refusing to buy the dangerous fuel.

Then we will have wasted billions on the wrong infrastructure, worsened the impacts of climate change, and given ourselves less time to transition to a low-carbon economy, raising costs.

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