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After the way 2020 is gone, I myself have wondered if the world is even worth saving.

Someone to know what costs more.

Doing something like the Paris Agreement or a Green New Deal or this kind of plan, which

is wait for nothing.

NAAA-DAAA.

Luckily we found an expert in doing nothing, Professor Marshall Burke.

In a sense, we study the cost of doing nothing.

Although doing nothing here really means doing a lot.

I do nothing all the time and it doesn't cost me a penny.

So we have studied this.

The Paris Climate Agreement said we want to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

But let's say we do nothing at all.

The best estimate suggests we're going to get about 3 degrees Celsius, 5 or 6 degrees

Fahrenheit of warming over the next century.

Hotter temperatures reduce agricultural productivity.

Hotter temperatures make us less productive at work.

And this could cost us tens of trillions of dollars in terms of lost economic output.

If I hear trillions of dollars, I'm thinking of monopoly money and unicorn tiers.

So what will doing nothing cost the average person?

You're right.

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