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AZJonnie

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1. 1.5 trillion over 3 decades sounds low to me, if one hurricane did $200B
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 02:39 AM
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Maybe if it's only direct damage, but if you count in how many regions are simply going to become uninhabitable (due to heat and/or lack of water and/or persistent storm damage that regions simply cannot recover from), and the homes in the entirety of the region become worthless, it'll be higher. And if a doomsday glacier peels off Antarctica or Greenland, and sea level rises a foot or even multiple feet, in a short span of time? We'll be longing for the good old days, where estimates of only $1.5T were written as if they were drastic.

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