While Africans will lose much less prosperity to climate change if we follow the “sustainability” (“green”) pathway, they will be much better off overall if we follow the “fossil fuel” pathway: they will be more than thirty times more prosperous in 2100 than in 2020, even after accounting for climate damages, compared to “just” nineteen times better off in the “sustainability” pathway. By choosing the latter, we would be leaving each African $55,000 worse off every year.
