Clearly we can afford it. It's the developing world that struggles. Even there, resource development seems not to benefit the people at the bottom and in fact the well known resource curse seems to have stopped or reversed progress in public health in areas of Nigeria where big oil is making billions.
If there is a conspiracy around climate change, I'd say it's on the side of the big non-renewable energy producers and their investors. The same companies that ran campaigns for the tobacco companies to show how cigarettes were safe are working for oil companies to undermine belief in climate science.
I am losing patience with climate deniers I come across in 'real life'. The common factor I believe is sheer stupidity, an inability to reason.
No one can prove the world could become uninhabitable owing to anthropogenic causes but (i) the overwhelming majority of climate scientists believes it, and more importantly, it can't be disproved either. So let's just ignore them and hope for the best, eh?
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