China on Thursday braced for the imminent landfall of Typhoon Doksuri, shutting schools and businesses in some coastal cities, while its national observatory renewed its most severe weather alert after overnight heavy rainfall in the country's southwest.
When they say climate change is going to cost trillions, this is what they mean. It’s going to be this kind of emergency every week for a long time.
Who will pay the trillion dollars? Taxpayers, so there’s really no incentive for corporations and governments to take action, they won’t foot the bill either way, and actually stand to make more when resources are scarce.
It takes just one week of hungry people for society to collapse.