A good thread on Grains of Sand about Nicholas Stern and discount rates finishes with a dramatic image:
'Economic growth is the religion of our time. A high priest has prescribed (mostly) sense and wisdom. Caesar is listening. Let's endorse the message, rather than poking fun at the pile of steaming chicken entrails used to divine it.'
How counting the true cost of cheap food could make a better world
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What we pay for food and other goods doesn’t reflect the environmental and
social damage they cause. But a radical new approach to economics could
change that
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