On: Fighting climate change may be cheaper and more beneficial than we think

[theon144]

"Future for my children" isn't exactly that abstract to most people...

[noir_lord → theon144]

You'd think that then you look at the way older people as a bloc vote in ways that shaft their offspring.

[baq → theon144]

depends, some people don't have the privilege to be thinking decades ahead if their worry is getting enough food to live through the next week.

[mises → theon144]

And yet people voted for social security, medicare, medicaid, and other entitlement programs which caused us to borrow twenty trillion dollars. Not exactly doing the next generation any favors.