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MARTIN CIZMAR
29 JAN 2019 AT 08:52 ET
Economic changes wrought by climate change will hit the hardest in areas that supported President Donald Trump in the 2016 election, a new study from the Brookings Institution shows.
The studys authors point out that while climate change is a major issue for people in blue states, the heaviest toll will be paid by people in red states, which the authors argue could be used to broker political compromise. The study used county-by-county statistics to compute climate-change vulnerabilities including agricultural yields, mortality, coastal damage and risk to labor.
According to the map, climate change could actually bestow net economic benefits
on the Pacific Northwest, parts of the Interior West, the upper Midwest, and New England, even as it creates stark losses in the Southwest, Southeast, and Florida, the study notes.
Taking the sunny view that Trump-loving areas in line for rising seas, brutal droughts, and other climate havoc are rational actors who might be convinced to support progressive notions of how to mitigate the dangers, the authors write that the current gridlock might not be as permanent as it now seems.
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mitch96
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Blame everybody but the shitstain in the Whitehouse..
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