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Kim Stanley Robinson: Climate Futures: Beyond 02022

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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Is the Discount Rate Too High?

The future gets panse schemed when the discount rate is too high. How would that get determined, or how yo effect? Well, owell, this is a modelling exercise. Effectively, it's an ethical dial. It's a moral dial. How much do you value the s to come after us? And to be able to put a number on that is, of course, the great achievement of economics, if it is great. We've got a number. I like i know. So what's your like? You're thu talking about sort of your your interesting structure. A lot of people who are a climate anchpanurs or a climate investors, or somehow in

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