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Sustainable Minimalists

The Cost Of Climate Change

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We know climate change is expensive, but how expensive is it really? A new analysis finds that beyond its effects on the broader economy, rising temperatures seriously hurt our personal finances. On today's show: A conversation with Alexandra Grose about what happens when climate change reduces lifetime income and simultaneously raises prices on ... well, everything.   Resource mentioned: Climate Change Could Cost Each American Born Today $500,000 (via Consumer Reports)   This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube. Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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0:00.0

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1:00.7

Well, hello there and welcome back.

1:05.6

My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 463 of Sustainable

1:11.4

Minimalists. This is a listener-supported show about intentional and

1:15.6

eco-friendly minimalist living. On today's show we are highlighting new research

1:21.7

that found that climate change is going to cost us and it's going to cost us big.

1:28.0

You might have heard that climate change costs the U.S. economy, hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

1:35.0

Globally, it's expected to cause trillions of dollars worth of damage annually by 2050.

1:42.0

But gigantic numbers like that make it really darn hard to see how the cost of climate

1:49.0

change might affect our everyday lives, our pocketbooks, yours and mine. Those numbers are just too abstract. And so a new

1:58.4

report commissioned by Consumer Reports might snap us to attention and that's because the report found

2:05.2

that if humanity does not swiftly act to limit global warming climate change will

2:11.5

cost a typical child born in 2024 at least $500,000 over the course of their lifetime

2:19.4

possibly up to as much as $1 million. So I'll say that another way. If you had a baby

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