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if te ipcc systematically downplays those outcomes, thenen it does't seserve thatat larger 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 sectoror 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 y negative impactsts acrs the boards in all those categories. i forgot to mention biodiversity, a potentially large-scale extinction of species. some of these we can ququantify ecoconomically or w n try to. some of them we can't even qualify how important they are. what is the value of the earth? well, it's infnfinite 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 in fact it's that principle that it's an infinite cost when we start talking about those sorts of scena

if you cut the taxes of business, thenen they hahave moe money because their taxes are lower. what they do with that money is t their decisision. and their decision is governed by making as much money as possible. that might mean that they will create a job, ok, but not h here. in a place where the wages are much lowewer--say, in asisia--wh might be nice for them but isn't particularly good here. or they might lend it to a a government o or theyey mighy the stock market. or they might do--i don't know-- let's see. what did they do over the last 30 yeyears? the most impressive things big corpororationsidid with the money they saved from taxes and with the profits they were able to getet from dereregulati, reallyonone of the m most spectacular things they did was to begin to pay corporate executiveves at the t top stupefying amounts of money. we are the leader in the world-- i'm sure you're all proud-- we're the leader in the world in the gap between what we pay our top executives anand what the average worker in that company that the e executie is s leading gets. in other place