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David Wallace-Wells on Empowering the Future

The Daily Stoic

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Climate Change

I think the even darker interpretation of that is that there's something we find comforting about the suffering of people living elsewhere because it reassures us of our relative privilege and prosperity. The IMF in 2021 estimated that I think it was a global vaccination program would cost $60 billion. And they thought that the returns by 2025 would be 9 trillion. So we didn't take the deal that maximized our own well-being. We took the deals that maximized the difference between the people who were best off and those who were worst off.

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