Apocalyptic claims about climate change from both sides are wrong.
As the article says, climate change won't destroy human civilization.
Halting climate change won't destroy the economy, nor would it significantly affect it. It'd cost on the order of a trillion dollars. That's a crazy amount of money, but the US can and will spend that kind of money regularly. For instance, it's comparable to the Iraq War or the Apollo project. It's less than WWII.
And it's not like the trillion would disappear; it's being spent in the economy. And via the broken windows measurement fallacy of economics, it would likely increase our GDP rather than decrease it.
As the article says, climate change won't destroy human civilization.
Halting climate change won't destroy the economy, nor would it significantly affect it. It'd cost on the order of a trillion dollars. That's a crazy amount of money, but the US can and will spend that kind of money regularly. For instance, it's comparable to the Iraq War or the Apollo project. It's less than WWII.
And it's not like the trillion would disappear; it's being spent in the economy. And via the broken windows measurement fallacy of economics, it would likely increase our GDP rather than decrease it.