Name: The Trillion-Dollar Paradox | Watch Lesson
Uploaded: 2026-05-19T18:44:58.260Z
Duration: 5 min 40 s
Description: Learn useful English from a TED-Ed video about the real cost of fossil fuels, renewable energy, and climate change.

Like the trucked in water, aren't free.

Is the trillion dollar that comes with transitioning the world to clean energy worth the cost of investment?

To fully to a green economy, we'd also need to invest in electrifying entire industries.

There’s just the upfront cost of building to harness them.

Switching to quickly could save trillions of dollars in the next three decades.

Most economic models predicted those costs to be completely impractical and .

This led to more research and development, which far below what even the most optimistic model had predicted.

is very, very expensive.

In fact, the US government climate disasters that incur more than $1 billion in damages.

The US government keeps track of climate disasters that more than $1 billion in damages.

The total bill is estimated to be an $2.8 trillion.

We now know the is different.

Визначте, чи відповідають твердження змісту відео.

Щоб виконувати завдання, увійдіть в акаунт.

Оберіть найкращу відповідь за змістом відео.

Щоб виконувати завдання, увійдіть в акаунт.

Заповніть пропуски словами або фразами з уроку.

Щоб виконувати завдання, увійдіть в акаунт.

Поєднайте фразу з її значенням.

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The Trillion-Dollar Paradox

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