climate change is bad for the economy? i was told it was climate vs economy...

/s

Humanity has been warned for several decades about climate change and the ensuing collapse. Humanity dragged its heels every step of the way instead of violently removing politicians and tech oligarchs from this mortal coil who refused to do anything meaningful.

This is completely and entirely on us.

Just last week, Nature published a study that found the world’s population susceptible to water risks is concentrated in two of the 58 IPCC reference regions

In assessing future climate change risks the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] makes use of 58 standardized geographical reference regions. Based on six water-related stressors and the affected population living a each of the 58 IPCC regions, the investigation finds that

East Asia and ... South Asia [fare facing a] disproportionate share of risk ... Together, these two regions account for 67% of populations globally susceptible to groundwater depletion, 60% for floods, 48% for eutrophication and overuse. ... South Asia’s share of global population-adjusted water risk is especially pronounced, accounting for 50% of the global population susceptible to groundwater stress, 38% to floods, and 35% to overuse ...

Eutrophication scores are particularly high in Western/Central Europe as well as in East Asia, because these regionst feature a combination of intensive agriculture and relatively high populations, according to the study.