How I imagine it goes.
ICC Panel: "So, scientist, how many parts per billion of carbon did you discover?"
"Fuck tons."
"Mmm, yes. And what did you find is the ideal target?"
"There isn't really any safe target, but perhaps 1 part per billion."
"I'm concerned. Will your solution to this problem, to get us back in ideal targets, will it affect global trade?"
"There's no way it can't. We have to re-think the entire way we build and distribute and plan--"
"Well that's a non-starter, Mr. Doom and Gloom. We'll set a target of 17,000 parts per billion--"
"--But that's suicide--complete, total, irreversible ecological sui--"
"Thank you, Doctor. That will be all. Always nice to hear your report."
*five years later*
"Can you believe that scientist?"
"All this time, we were a captive audience, couldn't he have let us know how dire the situation was?"
"I guess there's nothing to be done for it--"
In Unison: "BUT CONTINUE TO PROFIT!"
(All laugh, wink, and make shooting gun gestures at each other. Freeze frame, credits roll, audience claps.)
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