Still, the savings take decades to accrue while deploying these clean technologies requires up-front capital investments. And prices of green technology solutions are falling rapidly many are already cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives and will more than pay for themselves over time. Failing to curb global warming has started bringing more frequent climate catastrophes with crushing economic and humanitarian costs. But in this era of costly hurricanes, wildfires, and floods, melting polar ice and rising sea levels, it should be obvious that the price of the status quo is already high and increasing. Seldom do proponents of those views enumerate the costs or mention the alternative costs of continuing to extract and burn fossil fuels to meet society’s energy needs.
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