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Alwayshasbeeb • yesterday at 9:41 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

For those unfamiliar with the Nordhaus approach to climate change:

>Nordhaus has opined that agriculture is “the part of the economy that is sensitive to climate change,” but because it accounts for just 3 per cent of national output, climate disruption of food production cannot produce a “very large effect on the U.S. economy.”

https://theecologist.org/2023/nov/01/when-idiot-savants-do-c...


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tzs • today at 12:25 AM

Does that take into account that much of the other 97% of the nation output depends on workers that need the product of that 3% in order to work efficiently?

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magahugu • yesterday at 11:58 PM

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