[MCN] Harvard Business Review: Not fighting climate change will cost more than fighting it

[Lance Olsen]

If You Think Fighting Climate Change Will Be Expensive, Calculate the Cost of Letting It Happen <https://hbr.org/2017/06/if-you-think-fighting-climate-change-will-be-expensive-calculate-the-cost-of-letting-it-happen>
Harvard Business Review	 - ‎2 hours ago‎	 
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The share of national GDP at risk from climate change exceeds $1.5 trillion in the 301 major cities around the world.

https://hbr.org/2017/06/if-you-think-fighting-climate-change-will-be-expensive-calculate-the-cost-of-letting-it-happen <https://hbr.org/2017/06/if-you-think-fighting-climate-change-will-be-expensive-calculate-the-cost-of-letting-it-happen>


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“Policy and management have focused primarily on ... fire suppression and fuels management. 
These strategies are inadequate to address a new era of western wildfires …. We propose an 
approach that accepts wildfire as an inevitable catalyst of change and that promotes adaptive 
responses by ecosystems and residential communities to more warming and wildfire. “
 
Schoennagel et al. Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes. 
PNAS Early Edition
www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1617464114

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