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Wednesday, July 13th, 2022

US emissions inflict almost $2 Trillion in damage to other countries: study

Author:     ZACK BUDRYK
Source:     The Hill
Publication Date:     07/12/22 | 11:46 AM ET
 Link: US emissions inflict almost $2 Trillion in damage to other countries: study
Stephan:   Let's make a list of what the United States leads the world in: most people incarcerated, most expensive health care, highest maternal mortality, highest infant mortality, most money spent on the military, and leading polluter. I could go on, but I think you get my point. That's not what the politicians of either party tell you, but those are the facts. Because America has only one social priority, greed to produce profit, every day we betray what the Founders had in mind and, as this report, lays out, every day we harm earth's matrix of life. The only thing that is going to change this is we ourselves, the voters of America. So how are you planning to vote?
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China and the U.S., the world’s top two greenhouse gas emitters, have collectively cost the global economy more than $3 trillion, forming the basis for potential litigation, according to research published Tuesday. 

Researchers from Dartmouth College found that five of the world’s biggest emitters — the U.S., China, India, Russia and Brazil — cost the world some $6 trillion in gross domestic product over a quarter-century period. All five nations are among the five largest emitters worldwide except Brazil, which is the 12th-largest. The figure represents about 11 percent of annual global GDP during the study period. 

The two biggest emitters, China and the U.S., accounted for more than $1.8 trillion each in lost global income from 1990 to 2014. 

“This research provides an answer to the question of whether there is a scientific basis for climate liability claims — the answer is yes,” Dartmouth PhD candidate Christopher Callahan, the lead author of the study, said in a statement. “We have quantified each nation’s culpability for historical temperature-driven income changes in every other country.” 

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