Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows
Economic models have systematically underestimated how global heating will
affect people’s wealth, according to a new study that finds 4C warming
will make the average person 40% poorer – an almost four-fold increase on
some estimates.
The study by Australian scientists suggests average per
person GDP across the globe will be reduced by 16% even if warming is kept
to 2C above pre-industrial levels. This is a much greater reduction than
previous estimates, which found the reduction would be 1.4%. Scientists now
estimate global temperatures will rise by 2.1C even if countries hit
short-term and long-term climate targets.
Guardian 1st April 2025,
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/01/average-person-will-be-40-poorer-if-world-warms-by-4c-new-research-shows
China or America. Who is the warmonger?
by Richard Cullen | Mar 28, 2025, https://michaelwest.com.au/china-or-america-who-is-the-warmonger/
The US wants us to believe we should be scared of China, buy nuclear subs to help fight her, and increase our military spending to 3% of GDP. But who is the real warmonger, asks historian ,
One way to get a brisk fix on who is most scary is to look back over the last decade or so. And then consider what has unfolded over the last few months.
America, with its Gothic military budget greater than the next nine nations combined and with close to 800 worldwide military bases, has been involved in non-stop global warfare over the last decade in the Middle East and beyond. In Afghanistan, the US spent over $2 trillion to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.
Any doubt about this war-mongering obsession (notwithstanding recent White House attempts to wind back the Ukraine war) has been comprehensively erased by the continuing mass homicidal horror stories emerging, month after month, from the hellscape created by Israel in Gaza, backed with obscene fervour by the US.
Over the same period, the drum-beat mantra for China has been, “let’s go to work” rather than “let’s go to war.”
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