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Corals are included in costs: It counts $2-49bn/yr in the report

I think that's why this is hard to keep a sense of proportion - because things that feel big, (e.g. complete loss of corals reefs), are only a "small" percent of GDP. My question: what DOES count as a big percent of GDP? It's small relative to our sense of numbers. But to build

Our intuition a bit, can you give an example of something that IS a big share of GDP? And some intuition behind why?

So big ticket issues is social protection (19%), education (5%) and health (7%). These are about 100-200 times more important than acidification. And remember, this is the spending decided by democratically elected governments

You can also look at the impact in developing countries. We did a project on the cost of problems from 1900-2050 E.g. how much is the cost of NOT having health care, or NOT being able to read? The cost is huge (24% in 1900 of lacking health) https://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/scorecard-humanity …