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> So here we are, handing our grandchildren a life probably worse than what people experienced in the late 1800s to early 1900s. This way we avoided a bit of inconvenience in our life style.

Lol. We are going to get richer. Climate change means becoming richer at a somewhat slower pace.

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You're right on the average. Almost every scenario has global GDP per capita higher in 2100 than today.

Burke/Hsiang/Miguel [1] find poorest 40% of countries down ~75% and richest 20% up slightly.

So "we get richer" and "grandkids are worse off" are both true. Depends whose grandkids!

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature15725

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