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Robert Pindyck on Averting and Adapting to Climate Change

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The Risk of Worst Case Sinario in Fighting Climate Change

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If you think the future of the human race is at stake, that justifies radical social change. But if governments had no power and were motivated to do this, those are two really different things. If we had done something closer to what china did, put people under literal house arrest, not locked down, but house arrest, we could quarantine people using the army. You could then argue whether that would be a human race you'd want to be apart of if it required so much tyranny,. or worse, not justly orders. It's what it might lead toandd in future malphesants that i worry about when co when power is concentrated.

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