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Not in a thousand years, yes. But eventually all ecosystems on earth will end in a few billion years when the sun enters its red giant phase. So irreversible da
by RandomLensman 6y ago
Not in a thousand years, yes. But eventually all ecosystems on earth will end in a few billion years when the sun enters its red giant phase. So irreversible damage is coming absent some intervention.
With that happening, "pricing" things will also have to account for whether the actions will lead to some sort of ecosystems lasting longer. The really long term will do amazing things with compounding...
- federona 6y agoYou could account for billions of years in terms of money. Where as destroying things in a thousand because that is our business horizon is much more likely, and actually it's more like a year or two from current business practices, maybe a decade for long term thinking. If our business horizon was a billion years, then all the money and economic wealth in the world and quality of life indicators, and jobs would be so minuscule as to be a rounding error.