«It may seem like a cliche, but I know from our experience that pet stores can more than
survive in good economies or bad if they focus less on pricing and more on the welfare and needs of their employees and customers,» Levy says.
«Any time you have a large
surviving employer
in a depressed regional
economy, it's very hard for public officials to say no,» said Greg LeRoy, executive director of subsidy research group
Good Jobs First.
Because much of the cost will be realized after the emissions occur, the funds would have to be invested
in order to produce resources
in the future to compensate or make the
best of conditions then; this can be investment
in infrastructure (aquaducts and flood water management planning) and such things as R&D for drought / flood resistant crops, efforts to save ecosystems (those parts that will
survive the climate change, or otherwise planting trees, etc, where they will do
well in the future, or otherwise reducing other stresses so that ecosystems will be more resilient to climate change)(remember that ecosystems provide us with ecosystem services), etc, and / or investment
in the
economy in general so that more resources will be available
in the future to compensate for losses and pay for adaptation.