Everyone to pay for climate change

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http://www.enn.com/lifestyle/article/23633

From: Gerard Wynn, Reuters

Published October 4, 2007 03:42 PM
Everyone to pay for climate change


LONDON (Reuters) - Climate change will likely cost every global citizen something in the years ahead, although the payback will be much greater, policymakers, scientists and officials told a Reuters summit this week.

"I think it will be every citizen, (but) that bill may not in the end be as high for the individual as it's often made out to be," said Achim Steiner, head of the U.N. Environment Program.

Not overtly spending now on the fight against climate change would still cost something, effectively borrowing from the future at the cost of future damage of widely expected extreme weather including floods, drought and sea level rise.

"The slightly depressing answer is that the highest part of the bill unfortunately will be paid by my children and their children, because they will have to pay the costs of living with climate change," said Steiner.

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1. climate change is going to kill people by the hundreds of millions.

Quite possibly billions. Wonder if any of us have an entry in *that* in the checkbook?

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2. Somehow I suspect the tab will turn out to be much higher for the

Little People than for the Anointed Few at the top.