It got even more complicated when noting that GDP per capita is not equal everywhere. And there potentially are global maximum for local area (local as in not w

It got even more complicated when noting that GDP per capita is not equal everywhere. And there potentially are global maximum for local area (local as in not world wide, but a country or a region) to just ignore climate change risk altogether, since the current economic situation, either staying as is or trying to grow while avoiding climate change, is just too bad already. I'm in Vietnam, and while the government fully acknowledges climate change, with projection and plan to lose xx% of our most populous city (currently 10+ million population) to sea rise, but fully go ahead with coal power generation for industry... so yeah. There is definitely some dysfunctional planning at play, but probably a lot of calculated risk too. I'm expecting China to have the same calculus. I don't know if the experts do plan and account for those situations, but you definitely aren't gonna get a good layman discussion on a Western centric forum like this one. I'm barely comfortable to write this comment as is :-)