of that insurance policy,y, we need t te focucusing on some of those potential more extrememe catastrorophic outcocomes. if te ipcc systematically downplays those e outcomes, then it dodo't serve ththat largeger process of societal risk assessment as it should. qualitatively speaking, if you look at impacts on human health, water availability, human water resources, food resources, land, the global economy, pretty much every sector of our lives, of human civilization, what you see is a business-as-usual fossil fuel burning scenario, by the end of the century gives us highly negatitive impacts across the boards in all those categogories. i forgot to mentin biodiversity, a potentially large-scale extinction of species. some of these we can quantifyfy economicacally or wen try to. some of them we can't even qualify how important they are. what is the value of the earthth? well, it'ss infinitee because if we destroy the earth's environment, there is no plan "b." there is no planet "b" that we can go to. how do you put a cost on, you know, on the health of the environment? arguably you can't even do so. and