What? How is that possible? This is like evaluating the social cost of guns without including the social cost of gunshot wounds. And some criticize climate models as being inaccurate?
Here’s the deal: climate chaos threatens to bring down our civilization, if not our entire species. Yes, it’s impossible to know exactly when, where, and how we’ll respond, so let’s just call the price…infinite. Our civilization is priceless. Any notion of discounting the future is insane and immoral. The only conclusion is that whatever the calculated cost is using these extremely shortsighted models is too low by orders of magnitude.
Peter Joseph says
What? How is that possible? This is like evaluating the social cost of guns without including the social cost of gunshot wounds. And some criticize climate models as being inaccurate?
Here’s the deal: climate chaos threatens to bring down our civilization, if not our entire species. Yes, it’s impossible to know exactly when, where, and how we’ll respond, so let’s just call the price…infinite. Our civilization is priceless. Any notion of discounting the future is insane and immoral. The only conclusion is that whatever the calculated cost is using these extremely shortsighted models is too low by orders of magnitude.