African nations are losing up to 5% of their GDP per year with climate change, a new report says

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PugJesus , 5 days ago

In sub-Saharan Africa, the costs of adapting to extreme weather could be $30-50 billion per year over the next decade, the report estimated.

God. That’s such a small amount compared to what the world economy generates, and yet, invariably, the world will balk at the cost.

Most Sub-Saharan African countries are still largely reliant on primary sector exports for their economies, so in addition to Africa being not a great place to endure climate change in to begin with, each change that does occur will have a disproportional effect compared to what Middle and Upper Income countries will endure.

acosmichippo , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

also industrialized nations have benefitted from fossil fuels for over a century which is causing this entire problem, so we 100% owe it to them to help.