Climate change costs $16 million per hour in damage, mostly due to extreme weather events. Policymakers should use this data to allocate funds to help countries rebuild.

You’d think this would give us some wiggle money to play with to build out new energy infrastructure. You’re wrong though, there is no wiggle. We need all renewables like Germany.

Although the transition to EVs will require an enormous increase in base production capacity, it would be wasteful to build out nuclear to meet it.

$16m an hour might seem like a lot of damage, but nuclear can only exacerbate economic loss which is equally important as climatic loss.

Renewables now!

  • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Hard coal and lignite have a share of 35.3 percent in German power production (compared to 35.2% from renewables, 11.7% from nuclear and 12.8% from natural gas in 2018).

    As of five years ago they were also heavily relying on renewables according to your source.