It said the global community needed to be as serious about committing resources "on the same scale" to combating global warming as countries were during the the rescue of global economies during the financial crisis.
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To achieve thesamescale of cut in the United States, we'd have to abolish both Social Security and Medicare.
The percentages seem to me fine to compare on thesamescale if we think of them simply as meaning the chance that it will happen to any individual on average.