Going 100% Green Will Pay for Itself in Seven Years, Study Finds

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The paper referred to in the article: https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(19)30225-...

Thank you, this is a productive answer to the comments critical of paywalls.

Whenever I read headlines close to this or a study that find such insane conclusions I automatically dismiss it out of hand. You can only get to numbers this extreme with lots, and lots of hidden assumptions that you need to totally spin your way to get there.

In a world with limited time you need to think about what to study and after many studies that I find totally unrealistic, diving into another one is just not what I'm gone be doing.

Along those lines, if the break-even time on the investment is really just seven years, why isn't everyone doing it already?

I don't know if it would break-even that fast, but I would say much of why people are not doing it yet is that the technology is so new people don't know about it, and also there are some very powerful entrenched interests fighting it. Like the present US administration.

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