Each year between 2030 and 2050, nearly 250,000 of the world’s people will die because of the health effects of climate change. That sobering estimate comes from the World Health Organization.
Some Say It's Too Expensive to Mitigate Climate Change. What About the Economic Damage That's Already Occuring?
New York Times: Carbon Pricing & Climate Change
By Walt Minnick
Not only are states, provinces and countries putting a price on carbon, but so are many companies. More than 430 major companies — including General Motors, Stanley Black & Decker and Colgate-Palmolive — are now using an internal price on carbon for internal planning and to make investment decisions, according to C.D.P. (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project). More than a thousand companies worldwide, including most major hydrocarbon companies, are doing this or have pledged to do so within two years.
About Last Night...
In his final State of the Union address, President Obama focused on four questions. One was: How do we make technology work for us, and not against us — especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Another was: How can we make our politics reflect what’s best in us, and not what’s worst?