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Posted by David Roberts at 10:12 AM on 25 Feb 2008
When tallying up the costs and benefits of climate change (and mitigating climate change), economists generally use GDP figures.
If the entire continent of Africa was wiped out, that would shave about 2-4% off of global GDP. Would that count as a large cost or a small one?
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