Climate Change to Trigger Global Recession
Pastor Dale Morgan
Climate Change to Trigger Global Recession*
The Earth as we know it... but not for much longer!
London (AFP) Oct 27, 2006
Climate change may have an adverse impact on the global economy in the
long run and lead to the worst global recession in recent history, a
report to be released next week will warn, The Guardian reported on
Thursday. Citing comments made by David King, the British government's
chief scientific adviser, the newspaper reported that the report by
Nicholas Stern, a former World Bank chief economist, will argue that
fighting global warming will save industrialised nations money.
"All of (Stern's) detailed modelling out to the year 2100 is going to
indicate first of all that if we don't take global action we are going
to see a massive downturn in global economies," King was quoted as saying.
"If no action is taken we will be faced with the kind of downturn that
has not been seen since the great depression and the two world wars."
Stern's "analysis, I think, will also surprise many people in terms of
the relatively small cost of action," King said.
The contents of Stern's report, commissioned by the British finance
ministry and due for release on Monday, have been kept secret since
being revealed to the world's environment ministers at a conference in
Mexico earlier this month.
"The massive investment programme that's ahead of us is an opportunity
for us to move towards a zero carbon energy system. The investment
process is going to act quite possible in the opposite direction to an
economic downturn," he said.
Source: Agence France-Presse