Your argument is this: "Rather than give up 2% of our income, we should condemn all our descendants for the rest of time to a blighted ecosystem." > a catastro

Your argument is this: "Rather than give up 2% of our income, we should condemn all our descendants for the rest of time to a blighted ecosystem." > a catastrophe over 50 years. It is a palpable obscenity for you to use the word "catastrophe" to refer to a 2% decrease in the GDP but not for the complete devastation of our biosphere. I heard a theory once that only a certain number of human souls were ever created, and after that, a lot of people got born with partial souls or no souls at all. I found it charming but unconvincing, but sometimes I wonder...