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Environment & Energy

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5. Hyperbolic discounting of future consequences is probably programmed into our DNA

Mon Feb 29, 2016, 11:40 AM

Feb 2016

It's a good strategy, unless you happen to evolve the ability to take over the world and start strip-mining the planet.

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So called "renewables" aren't working. NNadir Feb 2016 #3

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+1E100 GliderGuider Mar 2016 #8

K&R. That headline alone needs to be recognised far & wide. Nihil Mar 2016 #7