There may be no free lunch, but reducing carbon emissions costs less than lunch.
Sally Rudd
Sally Rudd was a graduate student in energy economics at Simon Fraser University when she found that the cost of achieving an 80% reduction of emissions in the United States would be equivalent to a year and a half of lost economic growth. It would cost Americans slightly more than they spend on cosmetic surgery, less than on gambling, and far less than on going out for lunch.
From Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success, Mark Jaccard, p.37.
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