Why would you expect that? If I’ve learned anything, it’s that nobody has ever paid more than lip service to the effects on future generations. Pollution, overfishing, everything we do is for ourselves.

I thought we were talking finance, not global warming.

Try to keep up.

Where in it did they say we were fucked? I haven’t read it yet but I’m guessing that’s not in there. 1% higher taxes or whatever isn’t great but it’s more than worth it. Especially if you’re in a lower bracket and don’t see much or any of that anyway.

Edit: It doesn’t say anything about future costs from a skim of the paper, or even say the expenditure was too much. They mostly focus on how governments presented what they were doing, which in their opinion was skewed.

I find it weird that these academics wrote (with the text equivalent of a straight face) that politicians shouldn’t dissemble and spin things, when that’s basically their entire job, but whatever.