Report estimates climate change will cost children born today as much as $1M: ‘Through a combination of cost-of-living increases and reduced earnings’

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1. And death. Don’t forget that.

2. One of those reports that, as usual, looks only at the impact on children in the wealthy countries.

   [https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/developmenttalk/half-global-population-lives-less-us685-person-day](https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/developmenttalk/half-global-population-lives-less-us685-person-day)

   $6.85/day (or less) is a max of $2,500/year. That’s half of humanity, right now, whose earning power over 50 years of adulthood would top out at $125,000, based on current dollars and assuming their level of poverty remains constant. And 50 years is being generous considering the conditions they’re living under.

   They’re the ones who are already suffering the most, and largely due to the lifestyle lived in the wealthy countries.

3. Look at the stock market today, modern man with power greedy as f

4. Wow, the combined big heads have bankrupted capitalism.

   Nice work.

   I guess all we have left now is to find someone responsible to do the heavy lifting? Democracy sans crap-italism anyone?! 🤷

5. This is horrible. Can we not honor the future with intelligence that we leave behind? Grab it all up while you are here, leave nothing for the future adults. People are selfish and are happy with being uneducated. ” Ignorance is bliss”,
   and so deadly. The rich rule completely. Glad I have no grandkids.

6. Future generations will never forgive us for the hellish world we have created for them due to our greed, willful blindness, and obsession with ecologically expensive temporary comforts.