Pascal’s Wager for environmentalists: You’re being silly.

Every so often a well meaning famous person re-invents the notion of the environmentalist Pascal’s Wager. The case being made works like this:

We drastically reduce pollutionWe don’t change much Earth is doomed if we don’t drastically reduce our damage to the environment. Damage: 0Damage: Infinite Earth will be allright no matter what we do.Damage: couple billion dollarsDamage: 0

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