MontyB
All-Blacks Supporter
I am always highly sceptical of "educated guesses" from the academics. To me, this case is typical of the standard of their "guesses",.... little if any, better than you or I. The term "educated guesses" being somewhat of an oxymoron.
An educated guess is better than none at all.
In essence every decision we make is a guess at a favourable outcome no matter how much information you have simply because no decision is made in hindsight only with the benefit of hindsight.
The problem in this case is that if we chose to ignore the predictions and information the best we can hope for is no change if they are wrong and the complete collapse of the global economy and all its downstream issues on civilisation if they are right.
I tend to prefer the old maxim "plan for the worst and hope for the best" after all what exactly is the downside to helping the environment as much as is economically possible?
(By this I mean altering systems in such a way as to be both environmentally and economically sustainable, I do believe it unreasonable to make changes that destroy the economic fabric of society without offering viable alternatives).
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