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Environment & Energy

dutch777

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4. The nature of our government is just the next election. Long term planning in not baked in.

Reply to hatrack (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:49 AM

Jan 16

It amazed me when I lived in Germany and a local explained that their residential growth pattern had been planned 100 years out. They, Britain and others have agency within the bureaucracy that allows for that and the politicians stay out of it. We may do studies and suggest this or that but our politics has a way of short circuiting smart long term planning in many instances.

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Actuarial Study Projects 4 Billion Deaths At 3C Increase; Global Leaders "Blinded" By Lowball Estimates of Economic Loss [View all] hatrack Jan 16 OP

Politicians and billionaires have known this all along. Irish_Dem Jan 16 #1

Any action will only happen when it is too late. And any predictions today are probably way low/off. dutch777 Jan 16 #2

I don't think you're wrong - though under such circumstances it raises an interesting question . . . hatrack Jan 16 #3

The nature of our government is just the next election. Long term planning in not baked in. dutch777 Jan 16 #4