How the Trump administration’s climate math doesn’t add up | There's an old argument that protecting the environment hurts the economy. It's wrong for a lot of reasons.
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Even if it were a financial desaster, climate change will be a natural disaster.
And natural disasters are financial desasters.
There are two words that eviscerate the argument by demonstrating the ignorance of it (as if the fact that they need to deliberately zero out half the equation in their data isn't enough):
Ecosystem Services.