Some people may not think that global warming is a big issue, but it is. While global warming is bad, it also has its advantages. Global warming has several benefits, which include increases of human welfare, fewer winter deaths, lower energy costs, and probably fewer droughts.
"Especially cold winters cause a rise in heart failures far greater than the rise in deaths during heatwaves." Global warming would make our winters even warmer. More people die from cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths. According to the article, there are approximately 29,000 cold-related deaths every year.
The increase of wealth will help us adapt to future climate change because according to the article, we could probably gain more benefits and lessen some of the harm done by adapting. Our best bet would be to just adapt because it would help us out a lot.
As a matter of fact, yes we should care about how climate change has caused a 1.4% increase in global economic output. According to the article, it's "the difference between survival and starvation", for some people. 1.4% can really add up. One day it could possibly get up to about 5% and if we all work together, we could possibly end world poverty and hunger.
It could be possible to compare the costs, but it could be possible to compare the benefits. For the cost, all you would really have to do is look at previous costs. For the benefits, same thing goes. Some policies you would have to go by are build wind turbines, growing biofuels, and substitute wood for coal in power stations.
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