#climatecosts — Public Fediverse posts

Setting our world on fire as we stagger towards the flames.

* "This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly."
Tim Winton

"The dangerous conditions climate scientists long warned of have become our common, if deeply unwelcome, experience, and season by season, our acquaintance with disorder and extremities deepens. In both hemispheres, wildfires rage right into our cities and incinerate entire neighbourhoods. Marine heatwaves are bleaching corals and cooking seagrasses on a global scale. This northern summer has brought temperatures most Europeans associate with the Australian desert. Heat events in Europe have paralysed whole countries, destroyed infrastructure and killed citizens in their thousands."

"There’s nothing accidental or inadvertent about what we’re all suffering through together. We’ve had enough time now and have sufficient expertise to understand that this is not a natural calamity. This is something that is being done to us. Knowingly. Which makes it a crime." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2026/aug/24/this-is-not-a-natural-calamity-it-is-being-done-to-us-knowingly

* Our habituation to horror and violence: Paul Virilio's concept of the "integral accident" refers to a global, systemic catastrophe triggered by instantaneous telecommunications and hyperconnected technologies, rather than a localized mechanical failure. >>
The Original Accident, Paul Virilio >>
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-original-accident--9780745636139
#FossilFuels #climate #progress #techne #IntegralAccident #ManMadeCollapse #habituation #experience #GlobalHeating #HotOcean #Heatwaves #ClimateFiasco #crime #ClimateCosts #FossilFuelIndustry #disasters #malpractice #denial #parrhesia #journalism #habitability #loss

Climate change and corruption are also driving up interest rates
Climate costs will dwarf AI

* "...Trust in all institutions, including governments, is in decline, in tech companies as protests break out over data centres on top of anxiety about the impact of AI, and in governments, because of corruption."

"Transparency International has just released its corruption perception indices for 2025, and it's getting worse almost everywhere, including Australia, down from 10th to 12th place."

"The widespread popular dissatisfaction with the working of modern American capitalism may be the product of some real, objective problems in the way American capitalism is working: income and wealth inequality on a scale not seen in a century; the concentration of economic, cultural and increasingly political power in a class of technology leaders whose products are dissolving the bonds that keep society together; the tightening nexus between business elites and the people who control the political process; rampant corruption and a political establishment that doesn't seem interested in accountability; the revival, after decades of stable prices, of inflationary pressures that are pushing the cost of living to painful levels.” The Wall Street Journal editor, Gerard Baker

"..Temperatures would be various degrees of catastrophic … and expensive, for governments, companies and households." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-24/climate-change-and-corruption-are-also-driving-up-interest-rates/107068768

* 'Exceptional' summer heatwaves in Europe hurting economy
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-24/summer-heatwaves-in-europe-hurting-economy/107054578
#ClimateCosts #Climate #corruption #FossilFuels #ClimateAction #heatwaves #disasters #debt #inequality #corruption #trust

A Plan for Equality & Prosperity Within Planetary Boundaries
A habitable world is possible

"The Global Justice Report is part of a broader international agenda for planetary habitability, social justice, and reform of the global financial architecture."

"The Global Justice Project attempts to set out a new vision for global progress in the 21st century: grounding human development and equality in planetary habitability. It explores the conditions under which the world could move toward this horizon and traces an economically and ecologically consistent transition path from 2026 to 2100." >>
https://globaljusticeproject.wid.world/

Summary: The Global Justice Report
A Plan for Equality & Prosperity Within Planetary Boundaries
"It is possible to reconcile planetary habitability and high well-being for all, but only if the transformation rests on three pillars simultaneously. Fast decarbonization of energy systems is necessary. But we also need a major shift toward sufficiency – understood as a sharp reduction in labour hours and material footprint and large changes in consumption patterns, food habits, land use, and forest cover. In addition, neither decarbonization nor sufficiency can be financed and politically sustained without a drastic reduction in inequality of income, wealth and power, both between countries and within them. The compression of global inequality is not only compatible with deep decarbonization; it is a necessary condition for shared prosperity on a finite planet." >>
https://globaljusticeproject.wid.world/insight/summary/
#GlobalJusticeReport #inequality #SocialJustice #redistribution #WealthTax #ExorbitantPrivileges #SWF #Climate #PlanetaryBoundaries #ClimateCosts #disasters #PlanningCertainty #habitability #HabitableWorld #BigChange #IgnoredByMSM

Major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

"Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage."

"Eight of the biggest oil companies amassed profits of more than $90bn (£67bn) in just three months as the Iran conflict sent energy prices soaring and the emissions-fuelled climate crisis caused deadly heatwaves."

"Carbon emissions from the world’s biggest fossil fuel firms were directly linked to fatal spells of hot weather for the first time by scientific analysis published last September. It found the emissions from any one of the 14 biggest companies were each enough to cause more than 50 heatwaves that would otherwise have been virtually impossible." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2026/aug/04/revealed-major-oil-firms-make-93bn-profits-amid-war-and-climate-crisis

Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/rising-heat-kills-one-person-a-minute-worldwide-lancet-countdown
#FossilFuels #climate #heatwaves #ExtremeHeat #war #disasters #harm #ClimateCosts #mortality #destruction #FossilFuelIndustry

The #ClimateCosts of #war and #militaries can no longer be ignored

More than 5% of #GlobalEmissions are linked to conflict or militaries but countries continue to hide the true scale

Emissions from #Israel’s war in #Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on #ClimateCatastrophe
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/09/emission-from-war-military-gaza-ukraine-climate-change
#ClimateCrisis #IsraelHamasWar

The study found avg costs of $140B/year 2000-2019, though the figure varies year to year. The latest data shows $280B in costs in 2022. The researchers said lack of data, particularly in low-income countries, meant the figures were likely to be seriously underestimated. Additional #ClimateCosts, such as from crop yield declines & #SeaLevel rise, were also not included.

Study:
Global costs of #ExtremeWeather attributable to #ClimateChange
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41888-1

EMISSIONS WHO'S WHO
adjust the focus.

#climatecrisis #globalemissions #classwar #climatecosts #poor

US property owners will be paying more for their insurance after re-insurers hike catastrophe rates by 30-50% due to climate change.

#climatechange #climatecosts

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-property-catastrophe-reinsurance-rates-rise-up-50-july-1-report-2023-07-03/

You should think of Cyclone Gabrielle and its successors as the true "ute tax", paid by all of us in order to indulge the selfish prick component of our population.
#climateCosts #nzpol

So now a prediction.
Who's going to pay the #climateCosts for the business and elite-driven delay in addressing #climatechange ?
Why, these will be paid by those of us who are still poor enough to pay our taxes. And the costs will be inflated - several times over - because those same business interests, lobbyists and politicians will demand COMPENSATION for the loss of future profits that their thirty years of stalling and denying have allowed to flow in the past.
#nzpol

The consequences of climate change are NOT hitting us harder and earlier than we thought.

They are hitting us harder and earlier than industry lobbyists, right-wing politicians and media organisations, and others wanted us to believe.

The science has been there for more than a generation. But who's going to pay for the cost of business and elite-driven delay?
#climateCosts #climateChange
#nzpol

Everyone, *everyone*, arguing that working to mitigate the effects of climate change is too expensive for our economies is ACTUALLY objecting to the possibility that their primary source of personal income would have to change. The economy itself can't afford not to.
#climateCrisis #climateChange #climateCosts #economics