The cost of not taking action against climate change is a touchy subject.
On a household level you can actually measure the ‘costs’ or difference between being sustainable and being unsustainable. Just think of electricity bills. The more unsustainable you are the higher the cost of the electricity bill. To become more sustainable you can switch the type of light bulbs you use, get energy saving appliances, use less energy and in general the cost will go down. So, on a very small scale it is simple to determine the costs that will come for being unsustainable. The same can be said for water use and in most communities (if a garbage limit is in place) the same can also be said for waste production.
To measure the costs on a more global level though, is pretty much impossible. If you don’t know what the results could be then how can you really prevent them? Of course there are predictions of what may happen, but there are definitely many unforeseen results as well. This is what causes political and social unrest. Do we spend money, time and resources on preventing events that may not happen? How do we account for results that we never expected on a global scale?
People continue to refute the evidence of change, they refute the statistics (which according the book Damned Lies and Statistics they have reason too!), they live in denial about facts! Many of the statistics given related to climate change are considered to be “dark statistics”, which means statistics that are believed to be true but have not yet been proven. Even if the stats are a bit exaggerated, which im sure they are, it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t take action! Any change can be bad change even if its just a little bit.
In my opinion these questions will never be answered and the costs of inaction will far outweigh the cost of taking action. But who am I to tell the world my opinion! Maybe in the future....I will be president of the world and save everyone from climate change and all things bad. But until then, I will just keep doing what feels right and take action in my own life to reduce my negative influence on future conditions.
This video makes total sense to me... hopefully others too. The more the word is spread the better chance the world has!
And of course..... shedding some light on the subject.
Why can't everyone think like that bear! Good thing we have our own class environmental bear, Pepper!!
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