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In a cost-benefit analysis, you’re supposed to analyze the costs and the benefits. …
Trump claimed that U.S. commitments under the Paris accord would cost the country’s GDP $3 trillion, but the report he took that estimate from “does not take into account potential benefits from avoided emissions.”
Trump himself will lose Mar-a-lago to sea level rise.
The health effects of climate change will be huge: spread of tropical diseases to the USA (e.g., West Nile Virus is now in the northeast, zika in Florida), asthma and heart disease deaths will increase.