Jim Morris

I find myself more disturbed by the greed and stupidity than by impending climate change. I like the idea of doing a cost-benefit analysis using human lives and their quality as the measure, possibly discounted for the future. I hope that Lomberg, Nordhaus, and Schellenberger are not the tools or dupes of the oil companies.

I’m pretty generous, but actually feel conflicted about it. Only idealistic, altruistic activists who are willing to take on an apparently lost cause will work on climate change. There is unlikely to be much payoff for them or their descendants, and progress will be so difficult that they won’t receive many psychic rewards. The people I know with these characteristics are generally very rewarding to be around. Often their generosity to human kind spill over to particular humans, like me. So I’m planning to be a climate change activist even if it’s a hopeless cause. At least the company will be pleasant.