There has been no real indication whatsoever that the world is going to let off the gas pedal of the climate change bus
I am not that pessimistic, but the braking will be too slow I think. But don't worry, we rich countries will adapt. We will have real walls around our countries, 10m high with machine guns to hold off the millions of hungry people coming. We will grow our food in LED lit Aquaculture tanks and live in full-climatised buildings (looking like stadiums) that offer everything you need for daily life.
The newspapers are always full of doom and gloom. Is there a best case scenario as well as the worst case scenario?
The impact of climate change could be much less than expected. Predicting this stuff accurately is difficult.
The citizens of America could be so disgusted by the actions of Trump that they elect a good government.
EV and renewable energy technologies could reach a tipping point and rapidly displacement our carbon centric economy.
A vaccine for Lyme disease with a 99.9% effectiveness rate could be developing, eliminating the risk of the deer tick in eastern Ontario (and elsewhere).
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This is some pretty odd logic to be using. Let's apply the exact same approach to something different and see how it works out. How about . . . hmm . . . saving for retirement for example, which most of us see as a no brainer (and which any expert in retirement planning will tell you is necessary to avoid serious problems later in life) for example:
The newspapers are always full of doom and gloom. Is there a best case scenario as well as the worst case scenario?
Food and shelter might be free in the future. Predicting the future accurately is difficult.
The citizens of America could be so disgusted by the plight of poor people that they enact sweeping socialist changes and all agree to look after everyone.
You never know if you'll inherit a large sum of money, stumble across the world's biggest diamond while gardening in your back yard, or win the lottery.
New technologies could reach a tipping point and rapidly displacement the need to work in our economy. In a no money economy, people who have squirreled away cash would look foolish.
People are already talking about UBI. A high enough UBI rate would mean that anyone who wanted to retire right now, could. You would look pretty stupid if the day you had saved up enough to FIRE UBI that allowed you to retire anyway came into effect.
Every statement above, is as true as every statement that you made. But do you encourage people to save for retirement? Are
you saving for retirement? Of course you are. It's nice to fantasize about low percentage best case possible scenarios for the future. It's not good practice to count on them in your planning though.