Thomas Piketty, Climate Change and Discounting Our Future

“French economist Thomas Piketty and his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century are a global publishing phenomenon. But while Piketty’s writing on wealth inequality has been widely debated, far fewer people know that he has some useful things to say about climate change and public capital.”

Source: theconversation.com

GR:  This is a sad example of the type of professional economist debates that have earned Economics such a poor reputation.  The discussion here is not about the immediate emergency need to stop the irreversible extinction of Earth’s species; it is about when the monetary costs of climate change will be paid.