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Environment & Energy

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)

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Reply to phantom power (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 08:26 AM

Mar 2016

Focus on the present, fuck the future. It's the way life works, and humans are no exception. The cerebral cortex and the thumbs put a bit of topspin on the ball, though...

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Nature: "Current models of climate economics assume that lives in the future are less important... [View all] NNadir Feb 2016 OP

Well, in conventional economic terms, the more of something there is . . hatrack Feb 2016 #1

I should have known the eventual goal of the diatribe was to badmouth renewables. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #2

So called "renewables" aren't working. NNadir Feb 2016 #3

I haven't committed suicide, but I have deliberately remained childless. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #4

Well, it may be quixotic, but since I KNOW there is another way, I feel an ethical... NNadir Feb 2016 #6

Hyperbolic discounting of future consequences is probably programmed into our DNA phantom power Feb 2016 #5

+1E100 GliderGuider Mar 2016 #8

K&R. That headline alone needs to be recognised far & wide. Nihil Mar 2016 #7