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A Famous Guy Explains Why It’ll Be Cheaper To Deal With Our Scary Weather Now Than Later

The debate has changed recently: People aren’t so much denying global warming as worrying about what dealing with it will do to our fragile economy. It’s a good question. But this video explains how we got here and why the longer we wait, the more expensive — and bad for the economy — it’ll be.

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Robby Berman

So. “Dealing with global warming” — what does that actually mean? We don’t have a lot of power as individuals. What we can do is elect people who get it, and we can stay informed and get involved.

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