"Tell the truth" is unhelpful because the IPCC already has the truth and the government can't possibly do better. "Act" is vague. Act how? The concrete suggestion of citizens' assemblies doesn't belong here. Procedural changes done in the midst of a crisis are bad.
i think there are many problems each of which has direct effects that can be expected to shrink the world economy by a few % over the next century (compared to counterfactual rather than to present)
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The tails of global warming could be much worse than that though, and I think the really risky scenarios are where a tail event like methane clathrate feedback does a lot of damage quite quickly and then a cascading failure ensues. This the actual danger of CC.
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tails sound like a change of topic from your "reasonably confident" and anders's "CC introduces forcings that ... make systemic risks worse" though
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e.g. maybe there are 100 problems each of which multiplies the future world economy by 1.01 if we get them right and by 0.99 if we get them wrong, and then if each of them is an independent coin flip, we'd expect it to multiply out to a few tens of % of change
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