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Extreme Nature of Intergenerational Externalities in Climate Change
The external effects associated with climate change are considered extreme due to two key factors: the massive scale of their potential consequences and the fact that these consequences will primarily affect future generations, who are temporally distant from the actions causing the harm.
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