Reposted by Bob Ramsak
In the cost-benefit analysis of mitigation and adaptation, do you think French bureaucrats are saying to themselves, "Well, that's a few thousand pensioners that we no longer have to pay"?
It's as good an explanation as any for the lack of action.
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