A survey conducted by The Institute for Policy Integrity, NYU. But some thought the survey questions are fundamentally flawed.
A couple of interesting results:
"37.5% responded that “benefits to future generations” should be evaluated “by discounting them at a constant discount rate,” while 36.8% stated that they should be evaluated “by using alternative discounting methodologies (such as hyperbolic discounting),” and 16.7% stated that they should be evaluated “by reference to moral inquiries unrelated to discounting...The median value for a discount rate used to evaluate impacts on future generations, if discounting was to be used, was 2.4%, but there was wide variation, suggesting that there is no clear consensus."
"The median social cost of carbon estimate was $50, but there was very wide variation, suggesting that there is no clear consensus on the exact extent of the harm created by each unit of greenhouse gas emissions."
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