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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: neolib who wrote (17884)12/1/2007 5:14:03 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 36917
 
Economists don't know the future either.

If your referring back to your social security analogy, well we understand demographics a lot better than we understand weather and climate.

And comparing social security to ice melt in Greenland? - Well the ice melt in Greenland has to increase by orders of magnitude if its going to be a severe problem for the world in the century. Social Security spending is already very large. If analysis of social security spending being a big problem depended on very complex but very incomplete computer models which suggested that spending would go up 100 times, than I might be just as skeptical of them as I am of some of the global warming projections.
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