When They Talk About the Financial Costs of the Climate Crisis, It’s Clear That They Don’t Understand the Meaning of the Word “Crisis”

Ray Katz
4 min readApr 22, 2024

What’s the cost of defeating the Nazis? Of avoiding nuclear war? Of deflecting a planet-killing asteroid?

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Whenever I hear someone mention the costs involved in addressing the climate crisis, I stop reading. I close my ears. I turn the page.

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Ray Katz

Internet pioneer. But I’m most interested in stabilizing the Earth’s climate and promoting our common humanity. WeAreSaners.org